Willard Intermediate

Willard Intermediate is one of the low-enrollment middle schools in Santa Ana, California, one of the schools within Santa Ana Unified, with 390 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Willard Intermediate sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Willard Intermediate reports that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Willard Intermediate reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Willard Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 10.7%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Willard Intermediate is one.

The closest other public school is El Sol Santa Ana Science and Arts Academy, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Willard Intermediate comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willard Intermediate has edged down 47%, going from 740 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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