Trabuco Mesa Elementary

Trabuco Mesa Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, one of the schools within Saddleback Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 640 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Trabuco Mesa Elementary sits 38% larger than that benchmark.

Trabuco Mesa Elementary is one of 33 schools operated by Saddleback Valley Unified, a district that works with 22,646 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Trabuco Mesa Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 12% multiracial. Compared to Orange County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Trabuco Mesa Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 57.4%; this one delivers 73.1%, a residual of +15.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Trabuco Mesa Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Robinson Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Trabuco Mesa Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Trabuco Mesa Elementary's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 618 (now 640). The White share of enrollment contracted from 51% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 today.

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