Peters Canyon Elementary

Peters Canyon Elementary, a mid-sized primary school in Tustin, California, run under Tustin Unified, works with 399 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 28 schools in Tustin Unified (21,220 students total), Peters Canyon Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Peters Canyon Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic, 19% White, 12% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Peters Canyon Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.8%; this one delivers 69.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $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%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Peters Canyon Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Pioneer Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peters Canyon Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 72.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Peters Canyon Elementary's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 497 (now 399). The White share of enrollment shrank from 29% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 today.

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