Yorba Linda High

Located at 19900 Bastanchury Rd., in Yorba Linda, California, Yorba Linda High is an expansive four-year high school that serves 1,631 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 95% larger than typical.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 22,665 students. Yorba Linda High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Yorba Linda High records that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Yorba Linda High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.8%, the actual is 62.5%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put 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 Yorba Linda High is one.

The closest other public school is Fairmont Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Yorba Linda High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yorba Linda High has declined 9%, going from 1,795 students in 2018 to 1,631 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 56% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.

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