Pio Pico Elementary

Pio Pico Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Santa Ana, California, one of the schools within Santa Ana Unified, with 501 students on its rolls from grades K through 7.

Santa Ana Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 35,993 students. Pio Pico Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Pio Pico Elementary reports that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pio Pico Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.5%; this one delivers 13.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Pio Pico Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lowell Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pio Pico Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 21.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pio Pico Elementary has declined 8%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 501 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

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