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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Olivewood Elementary?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SADDLEBACK VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 063386005310
Olivewood Elementary
23391 Dune Mear Rd., Lake Forest, CA 92630 · (949) 837-6682 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
340 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 114 | 29% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 50 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 128% larger than its 6th grade class (50).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
32.7%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.3pp since 2014
Math
23.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.9% | 18.8% | 20.3% | 47.0% |
| Math | 10.4% | 12.7% | 28.3% | 48.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.7% | 23.1% |
| 2023-24 | 29.5% | 28.6% |
| 2022-23 | 29.6% | 29.2% |
| 2021-22 | 24.3% | 20.8% |
| 2018-19 | 33.3% | 28.3% |
| 2017-18 | 30.3% | 24.6% |
| 2016-17 | 29.8% | 22.6% |
| 2015-16 | 39.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 36.0% | 26.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Olivewood Elementary
Olivewood Elementary's state test result (28.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivewood Elementary this school | 396 | 85.9% | 28.2% |
| Joel J. Hidahl Elementary Ceres | 393 | 86.0% | 24.9% |
| Oak Grove Elementary Porterville | 393 | 87.3% | 33.0% |
| Indianola Elementary Selma | 420 | 87.1% | 26.0% |
| Taft Elementary Santa Ana | 408 | 85.3% | 14.8% |
| Wing Lane Elementary Valinda | 384 | 83.9% | 23.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Olivewood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #3,730 of 5,151 | #321 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #3,984 of 5,172 ▼ 753 | #341 of 382 ▼ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.7% | #3,712 of 5,172 ▲ 114 | #320 of 382 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.3pp | #1,566 of 5,116 | #102 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #3,743 of 5,915 | #293 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #2,111 of 5,352 | #87 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.1% | #4,127 of 5,354 | #311 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.9% | #1,575 of 5,625 | #74 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.6% | #1,032 of 3,837 | #107 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
396
+148 (+60%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 658
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 31.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 396 | 18.1 | 21.9:1 | 86% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 19.1 | 21.6:1 | 82% (338) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 18.9 | 22.2:1 | 81% (340) |
| 2020-21 | 248 | 8 | 31.0:1 | 66% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 518 | 18 | 28.8:1 | 79% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 19 | 25.2:1 | 76% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 421 | N/A | N/A | 63% (267) |
| 2000-01 | 614 | 30 | 20.5:1 | 33% (202) |
| 1990-91 | 658 | 26 | 25.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Olivewood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (518 to 396); teachers up 1% (18 to 18.1).
About Olivewood Elementary
Olivewood Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Lake Forest, California, under Saddleback Valley Unified. The school serves 396 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25.
The district, Saddleback Valley Unified, operates 33 schools serving 22,646 students.
At Olivewood Elementary, Hispanic students make up 86% of the student body. It is also 6% Asian, 5% White, and 2% multiracial. Orange County's residents are about 34% Hispanic, 51 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Olivewood Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 26%.
The school has about 21.9 students per teacher and 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is about 22.3:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 86%. That is higher than the 55% average for public schools in Orange County.
allk12 grades Olivewood Elementary a C. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at Olivewood Elementary are 1.0 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (28.2% actual, 29.2% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Orange County show that median household income is about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 649 public schools in Orange County, with a combined enrollment of about 430,458.
The closest public school to Olivewood Elementary is Oxford Preparatory Academy - Saddleback Valley, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles of Olivewood Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 28.2% is below the 46.8% average for nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Olivewood Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21 the school reported 248 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 396. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large. The ratio of students to teachers went from 31.0:1 to 21.9:1 over the same years.
Community posts for Olivewood Elementary can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- Serrano IntermediateMiddle · 868 students
- Lake Forest ElementaryElementary · 640 students
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- Oxford Preparatory Academy - Saddleback ValleyElementary · 565 students
Nearby schools
- Oxford Preparatory Academy - Saddleback Valley0.5 mi · 565
- Oxford Preparatory Academy - Middle0.5 mi · 495
- Ralph A. Gates DLI Magnet Elementary0.7 mi · 896
- Serrano Intermediate0.9 mi · 868
- Santiago STEAM Magnet Elementary0.9 mi · 517
- Los Alisos Intermediate0.9 mi · 595
Frequently asked questions
About Olivewood ElementaryHow large is Olivewood Elementary?
Olivewood Elementary enrolls approximately 396 students in grades KG-06.
Is Olivewood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Olivewood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Olivewood Elementary?
Approximately 21.9:1 students per teacher at Olivewood Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Olivewood Elementary?
Student demographics at Olivewood Elementary are roughly 5% White, 86% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Olivewood Elementary in?
Olivewood Elementary is part of Saddleback Valley Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.