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Savanna High
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Savanna High
Set in Anaheim, California, Savanna High is a high-enrollment four-year high school, part of Anaheim Union High. It caters to 1,466 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 75% above the state mean of about 838.
Anaheim Union High runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 26,076 students. Savanna High is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Savanna High records that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 8% Asian, 4% White, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Savanna High has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Savanna High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Savanna High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Savanna High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.1%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of +1.6 points.
Around the school, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Savanna High is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).
Nearest neighbor: Juliette Low School of the Arts, around 0.4 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), Savanna High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Savanna High has contracted 25%, going from 1,951 students in 2018 to 1,466 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 76% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.
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