Wallace R. Davis Elementary

Wallace R. Davis Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Santa Ana, California, overseen by Santa Ana Unified, with 413 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Santa Ana Unified comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 35,993 students; Wallace R. Davis Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wallace R. Davis Elementary logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wallace R. Davis Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.7%; this one delivers 33.4%.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wallace R. Davis Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

OCSA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wallace R. Davis Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallace R. Davis Elementary at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 20.8%.

Wallace R. Davis Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 610 students in 2018 compared to 413 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 29.1:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

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