Walt Disney

Walt Disney operates as a mid-sized primary school in Anaheim, California, overseen by Magnolia Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 560 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 20% above the state mean of about 465.

Across the 9 schools in Magnolia Elementary (4,765 students total), Walt Disney accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Walt Disney lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 28% Asian, 17% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, Walt Disney ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.4%; Walt Disney posts 54.1%, +14.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Walt Disney is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Juliette Low School of the Arts, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walt Disney at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 34.1%.

Walt Disney operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walt Disney has decreased 14%, going from 650 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 52% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 in 2025.

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