Trabuco Elementary

Trabuco Elementary, an one-room-style elementary campus in Trabuco Canyon, California, run under Saddleback Valley Unified, enrolls 90 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Trabuco Elementary sits 81% below that benchmark.

Across the 33 schools in Saddleback Valley Unified (22,646 students total), Trabuco Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Trabuco Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at Trabuco Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Trabuco Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Trabuco Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Trabuco Mesa Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Trabuco Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Trabuco Elementary has rose 30%, going from 69 students in 2018 to 90 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 62% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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