Raymond Temple Elementary

Raymond Temple Elementary is a primary school of average-sized scale in Buena Park, California, one of the schools within Centralia Elementary, caters to 431 students in grades K through 6.

Centralia Elementary comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,990 students; Raymond Temple Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Raymond Temple Elementary reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 19% Asian, 9% White, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Raymond Temple Elementary qualify 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%.

After controlling for student poverty, Raymond Temple Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.9%; Raymond Temple Elementary posts 51.3%, +18.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate 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. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Raymond Temple Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Hope, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Raymond Temple Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 504 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 16% to 9% over that span.

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