Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate

Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate operates as a modestly sized middle school in Santa Ana, California, part of Garden Grove Unified. Current enrollment sits at 534 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Within Garden Grove Unified, which oversees 64 schools and 36,994 students, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate lists that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 11% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.8%; this one delivers 37.3%.

In the broader community, 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%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate is one.

Heritage Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 689 (now 534). Class-load math has tightened: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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