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What do you wish you knew before starting at Peters Canyon Elementary?
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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TUSTIN UNIFIED·NCES 064015007203
Peters Canyon Elementary
26900 Peters Canyon Rd., Tustin, CA 92782 · (714) 730-7540 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
24.2:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 26.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
125 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
72%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
75.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.9pp since 2014
Math
74.7%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 53.6% | 21.5% | 12.0% | 12.9% |
| Math | 52.2% | 22.5% | 10.4% | 14.8% |
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 | 75.1% | 74.7% |
| 2023-24 | 71.6% | 67.9% |
| 2022-23 | 66.1% | 70.5% |
| 2021-22 | 73.1% | 69.1% |
| 2018-19 | 78.0% | 75.0% |
| 2017-18 | 81.5% | 77.9% |
| 2016-17 | 83.6% | 79.0% |
| 2015-16 | 87.0% | 83.0% |
| 2014-15 | 79.0% | 76.0% |
% 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
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Peters Canyon Elementary
Peters Canyon Elementary's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peters Canyon Elementary this school | 399 | 31.3% | 72.0% |
| Country Lane Elementary San Jose | 444 | 30.0% | 72.2% |
| Greentree Elementary Irvine | 434 | 29.7% | 55.1% |
| Braly Elementary Sunnyvale | 381 | 31.5% | 54.4% |
| Ladera Elementary Tustin | 345 | 32.5% | 68.2% |
| Marian Bergeson Elementary Laguna Niguel | 423 | 29.8% | 70.0% |
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 Peters Canyon Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #561 of 5,151 | #83 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #426 of 5,172 ▲ 274 | #66 of 382 ▲ 38 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #493 of 5,172 ▲ 137 | #80 of 382 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.8pp | #2,048 of 5,116 | #147 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #3,708 of 5,915 | #291 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.2:1 | #3,885 of 5,352 | #218 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #449 of 5,354 | #26 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.3% | #4,704 of 5,625 | #296 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.7% | #1,469 of 3,837 | #133 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
399
-98 (-20%) vs 2020
-44% since 2000-01, when it was 712
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
was 26.2:1
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 | 399 | 16.5 | 24.2:1 | 31% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 448 | 17.5 | 25.6:1 | 31% (139) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 18.5 | 25.5:1 | 18% (87) |
| 2020-21 | 497 | 19 | 26.2:1 | 11% (56) |
| 2017-18 | 497 | 18 | 27.6:1 | 12% (62) |
| 2015-16 | 560 | 19 | 29.5:1 | 5% (30) |
| 2010-11 | 627 | N/A | N/A | 4% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 712 | 38 | 18.7:1 | 3% (20) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Peters Canyon Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (497 to 399); teachers down 8% (18 to 16.5).
About Peters Canyon Elementary
Peters Canyon Elementary is a public medium-sized elementary school in Tustin, California. The school's enrollment of 399 students covers kindergarten through 5.
The district for Peters Canyon Elementary is Tustin Unified, with 28 schools and 21,220 students.
Peters Canyon Elementary has no majority group; Asian students are the largest, at 40%. The rest of enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 19% White, and 12% multiracial. Census estimates put the Asian share of Orange County's population at about 22%. The school's diversity index is 72%, meaning two students picked at random have a 72% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
At Peters Canyon Elementary, 16.5 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 24.2:1. That is higher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Roughly 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 24 points below the 55% average for public schools in Orange County.
Peters Canyon Elementary is graded A by allk12, scoring above 92% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Peters Canyon Elementary scores 72.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 61.2%.
Census Bureau estimates for Orange County show that the median household income is $116,289, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 44% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. There are 649 public schools in Orange County, enrolling about 430,458 students in all.
The next-closest public school is Pioneer Middle, about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Peters Canyon Elementary is behind the 73.0% nearby average, ranking 5th of 9.
Federal data place Peters Canyon Elementary in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
2024-25 enrollment was 399, a 20% decrease from 497 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 24.2 students per teacher, compared with 26.2 in 2020-21.
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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
Other schools in Tustin Unified
- Arnold O. Beckman HighHigh · 2,776 students
- Foothill HighHigh · 2,126 students
- Tustin HighHigh · 1,627 students
- Orchard HillsElementary · 1,373 students
- Sycamore Magnet AcademyElementary · 1,085 students
- Pioneer MiddleMiddle · 971 students
Other schools in Tustin
- Tustin HighHigh · 1,627 students
- Sycamore Magnet AcademyElementary · 1,085 students
- Pioneer MiddleMiddle · 971 students
- Legacy Magnet AcademyHigh · 964 students
- Columbus Tustin MiddleMiddle · 583 students
- Heritage ElementaryElementary · 567 students
Nearby schools
- Pioneer Middle0.3 mi · 971
- Ladera Elementary0.7 mi · 345
- Orchard Hills1.1 mi · 1,373
- Myford Elementary1.3 mi · 542
- Arroyo Elementary1.3 mi · 585
- Red Hill Elementary1.4 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About Peters Canyon ElementaryHow large is Peters Canyon Elementary?
Peters Canyon Elementary enrolls approximately 399 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Peters Canyon Elementary serve?
Peters Canyon Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Peters Canyon Elementary?
Approximately 24.2:1 students per teacher at Peters Canyon Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Peters Canyon Elementary?
Student demographics at Peters Canyon Elementary are roughly 19% White, 27% Hispanic, 2% Black, 40% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Peters Canyon Elementary?
Peters Canyon Elementary is overseen by Tustin Unified in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.