Yorba Middle

Yorba Middle, an intimate intermediate school in Orange, California, operated by Orange Unified, instructs 418 students, covering grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 37% leaner than typical.

Orange Unified runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 23,790 students. Yorba Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Yorba Middle logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Yorba Middle lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 89% 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%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Yorba Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.8%, the actual is 31.1%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 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 Yorba Middle is one.

California iInspire Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yorba Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.6%.

Yorba Middle operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 607 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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