Rio Vista Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Anaheim, California, Rio Vista Elementary instructs 647 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rio Vista Elementary sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 22,665 students. Rio Vista Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rio Vista Elementary records that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 5% White, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 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. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rio Vista Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that 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. Rio Vista Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sunkist Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rio Vista Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rio Vista Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 901 students in 2018 compared to 647 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.1:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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