Scholarship Prep - Orange County

Scholarship Prep - Orange County is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Santa Ana, California, part of Scholarship Prep - Orange County District, with 615 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 465.

Scholarship Prep - Orange County sits inside Scholarship Prep - Orange County District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Scholarship Prep - Orange County lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate 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%. Scholarship Prep - Orange County is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wilson Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Scholarship Prep - Orange County.

The school occupies a city-core site. Scholarship Prep - Orange County operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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