Wilson Elementary

Wilson Elementary is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Santa Ana, California, run under Santa Ana Unified, hosting 422 students in grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wilson Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Wilson Elementary lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.1%; this one delivers 28.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Wilson Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Scholarship Prep - Orange County, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wilson Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Wilson Elementary's enrollment has edged down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 614 (now 422). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 29.2:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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