Truman Benedict Elementary

Truman Benedict Elementary is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in San Clemente, California, overseen by Capistrano Unified, educateing 602 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Truman Benedict Elementary sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Truman Benedict Elementary is one of 58 schools operated by Capistrano Unified, a district that caters to 40,251 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Truman Benedict Elementary records that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 43% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 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. Roughly 20% of students at Truman Benedict Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Truman Benedict Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 73.2%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Truman Benedict Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bernice Ayer Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Truman Benedict Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

Truman Benedict Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Truman Benedict Elementary has declined 8%, going from 651 students in 2018 to 602 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 31.0:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 today.

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