Santiago Elementary

Santiago Elementary is a K-5 school of heavily attended scale in Santa Ana, California, operated by Santa Ana Unified, serveing 906 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 95% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Santiago Elementary is one of 51 schools operated by Santa Ana Unified, a district that educates 35,993 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Santiago Elementary records that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 3% White, 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 resource side, On paper, Santiago Elementary has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 77% of students at Santiago Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, Santiago Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 30.2%.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Santiago Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Gonzalo Felicitas Mendez Fundamental Intermediate, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Santiago Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.9%.

Santiago Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Santiago Elementary's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,178 (now 906). Class-load math has fell: from 29.0:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.

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