Olivewood Elementary

Olivewood Elementary, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Lake Forest, California, one of the schools within Saddleback Valley Unified, instructs 396 students, covering grades K through 6.

Olivewood Elementary is one of 33 schools operated by Saddleback Valley Unified, a district that hosts 22,646 students overall.

Demographically, Olivewood Elementary records that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 6% Asian, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olivewood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.3%; this one delivers 28.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Olivewood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Oxford Preparatory Academy - Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Olivewood Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 518 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.8:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

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