Springbrook Elementary

Springbrook Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Irvine, California, part of Irvine Unified, teacheing 539 students in grades K through 6.

Springbrook Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Irvine Unified, a district that teaches 37,948 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Springbrook Elementary logs that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% White, 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Springbrook Elementary reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Springbrook Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at Springbrook Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Springbrook Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.1%, the actual is 62.9%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Around the school, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Springbrook Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Meadow Park Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Springbrook Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Springbrook Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 70.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 14% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.5:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 today.

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