Victoria Elementary

Victoria Elementary is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in Costa Mesa, California, one of the schools within Newport-Mesa Unified, with 301 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Victoria Elementary sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

Victoria Elementary is one of 31 schools operated by Newport-Mesa Unified, a district that caters to 17,540 students overall.

Demographically, Victoria Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 38% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Victoria Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Victoria Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible 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, Victoria Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 50.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Victoria Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Wilson Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Victoria Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 17%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 69% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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