Vibrant Minds Charter

Vibrant Minds Charter is a modestly sized primary school in Anaheim, California, run under Vibrant Minds Charter District. The school hosts 245 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 47% leaner than typical.

Vibrant Minds Charter is a school of Vibrant Minds Charter District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Vibrant Minds Charter shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment; the rest consists of 12% White, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 32.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Orange County's rate of about 55%.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Vibrant Minds Charter is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mann (Horace) Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Vibrant Minds Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.