Samueli Academy

Samueli Academy, located in Santa Ana, California, is a medium-sized high school. The grade span is 7 through 12, and enrollment is 842 students.

Federal records list Samueli Academy District as the district for Samueli Academy.

Hispanic students make up 82% of enrollment at Samueli Academy. The next largest groups are 8% Asian, 5% White, and 3% multiracial. In Orange County overall, about 34% of residents are Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 31%, meaning two students picked at random have a 31% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

With 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Samueli Academy was 21.3:1. This ratio sits 3.1 above the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 74%. Across public schools in Orange County, the average is 55%.

Census Bureau estimates for Orange County show that the median household income is $116,289, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 44% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. There are 649 public schools in Orange County, enrolling about 430,458 students in all.

Leroy L. Doig Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Samueli Academy holds at least 8 other public schools.

Federal data place Samueli Academy in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.

Enrollment climbed 25% from its 2020-21 level of 675.

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