Washington Elementary

Washington Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Santa Ana, California, operated by Santa Ana Unified. Current enrollment sits at 529 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Washington Elementary records that 96% 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%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Washington Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Washington Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Manuel Esqueda Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Washington Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Washington Elementary's enrollment has contracted 34% since 2018, when it stood at 807 (now 529). Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

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