Valencia Park Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Fullerton, California, Valencia Park Elementary hosts 398 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Fullerton Elementary.

Valencia Park Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Fullerton Elementary, a district that instructs 11,247 students overall.

On demographics, Valencia Park Elementary shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, On paper, Valencia Park Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 30.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Valencia Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.9%.

Across the wider county, 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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Valencia Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Buena Park High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Valencia Park Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 35%: 616 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 27.8:1 in 2018 to 30.6:1 in 2025.

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