Tustin Ranch Elementary

Set in Tustin, California, Tustin Ranch Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school, one of the schools within Tustin Unified. It caters to 520 students across grades K through 5.

Within Tustin Unified, which oversees 28 schools and 21,220 students, Tustin Ranch Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Tustin Ranch Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Asian, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Tustin Ranch Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tustin Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Tustin Ranch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Myford Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tustin Ranch Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Tustin Ranch Elementary's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 619 (now 520). Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 30.2:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 today.

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