Walker Junior High

Walker Junior High is a moderately sized intermediate school in La Palma, California, part of Anaheim Union High. The school works with 890 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Walker Junior High sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Anaheim Union High runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 26,076 students. Walker Junior High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Walker Junior High logs that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% Asian, 13% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Walker Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.3%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Walker Junior High is one.

John F. Kennedy High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Walker Junior High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walker Junior High has ticked down 18%, going from 1,090 students in 2018 to 890 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 9% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 today.

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