Roy O. Andersen Elementary

Roy O. Andersen Elementary is a cozy K-5 school in Newport Beach, California, run under Newport-Mesa Unified. The school educates 353 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Roy O. Andersen Elementary sits 24% below that benchmark.

Roy O. Andersen Elementary is one of 31 schools operated by Newport-Mesa Unified, a district that teaches 17,540 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roy O. Andersen Elementary lists that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% multiracial, 10% Asian, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Roy O. Andersen Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 9% of students at Roy O. Andersen Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roy O. Andersen Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.9%; this one delivers 80.0%.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Roy O. Andersen Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Abraham Lincoln Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roy O. Andersen Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 73.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roy O. Andersen Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 360 students in 2018 to 353 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 83% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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