REACH Academy

REACH Academy, a minimally staffed secondary school in Santa Ana, California, one of the schools within Santa Ana Unified, serves 36 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 96% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Santa Ana Unified comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 35,993 students; REACH Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, REACH Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, REACH Academy records 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. REACH Academy is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Raymond A. Villa Fundamental Intermediate, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. REACH Academy's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 43 (now 36). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 95% to 100% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 6.6:1 in 2018 to 5.0:1 in 2025.

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