Saddleback High

Saddleback High, a high-enrollment high school in Santa Ana, California, overseen by Santa Ana Unified, instructs 1,451 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% larger than the state mean of about 838.

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

Looking at the student body, Saddleback High shows that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 2% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Saddleback High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.5%; this one delivers 33.9%.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Saddleback High is one campus in the mix.

Douglas MacArthur Fundamental Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Saddleback High comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Saddleback High has fell 11%, going from 1,626 students in 2018 to 1,451 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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