Wagon Wheel Elementary

Located at 30912 Bridle Path, in Coto De Caza, California, Wagon Wheel Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that works with 441 students (grades K through 5), run under Capistrano Unified.

Across the 58 schools in Capistrano Unified (40,251 students total), Wagon Wheel Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Wagon Wheel Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% multiracial, 14% Asian, 11% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 43% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Wagon Wheel Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wagon Wheel Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.6%; this one delivers 81.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Wagon Wheel Elementary is one.

Tesoro High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wagon Wheel Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 76.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Wagon Wheel Elementary's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 441). White enrollment moved from 71% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 30.4:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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