Ruby Drive Elementary

Ruby Drive Elementary, a close-knit elementary campus in Placentia, California, overseen by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, works with 373 students, covering grades K through 6.

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

On demographics, Ruby Drive Elementary logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Asian, 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ruby Drive Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 82% of students at Ruby Drive Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ruby Drive Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Ruby Drive Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Valencia High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ruby Drive Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ruby Drive Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ruby Drive Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 379 (now 373). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 95% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.

On this page, members of the Ruby Drive Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.