Solis Park

Solis Park, a sizable elementary school in Irvine, California, one of the schools within Irvine Unified, works with 972 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Solis Park sits 109% larger than that benchmark.

Irvine Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 37,948 students; Solis Park is among them.

Looking at the student body, Solis Park records that the largest single group is Asian, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Solis Park has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Solis Park performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Solis Park is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Portola High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Solis Park. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Solis Park at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 69.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

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