Orange County Classical Academy

As an average-sized combined-grade school in Orange, California, Orange County Classical Academy hosts 740 students from grades K through 12, overseen by Orange County Classical Academy District. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Orange County Classical Academy sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Orange County Classical Academy District is the operating authority for Orange County Classical Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Orange County Classical Academy logs that the most-represented group is Asian (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 37% White, 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.7:1. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Orange County Classical Academy is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Esplanade Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site. Orange County Classical Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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