Schools · Santa Ana
Santa Ana, CA schools
Santa Ana’s public schools score well below California’s averages: 37% of students are proficient in reading against 48.5% statewide, and 91% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.6%. Kids attend one of 34 schools through grade 8, then one of 14 high schools and one of 6 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C+
Santa Ana’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Santa Ana’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 57% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C+Test scoresB-Graduation
California school districts we grade (1,139)Better than 43%
Lower resultsHigher results
California towns with similar household incomes (579)Better than 24%
High confidence. Built on 4,378 tested students and a graduating class of 3,510; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on California’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of California only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in California with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Santa Ana kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades K–12, Santa Ana Unified)37%
State average 48.5%
Math (grades K–12, Santa Ana Unified)23%
State average 33.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
91% graduate on time
Graduation rate
91%
CA: 87.6%
Graduating class
3,510
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #272 of 720 CA towns →
Districts
The district serving Santa Ana
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 88 schools in Santa Ana
Showing 1–30 of 88 schools
McFadden Institute of TechnologyElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,074 students
PublicEl Sol Santa Ana Science and Arts AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 980 students
D-CharterSantiago ElementaryElementary · Grades K–8 · 906 students
PublicRomero-Cruz AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 827 students
C-PublicGreenville Fundamental ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 817 students
BPublicManuel Esqueda ElementaryElementary · Grades K–8 · 811 students
PublicMartin R. Heninger ElementaryElementary · Grades K–8 · 783 students
PublicMadison ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 749 students
PublicJim Thorpe FundamentalElementary · Grades K–5 · 738 students
BPublicSierra Preparatory AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 697 students
PublicRoosevelt Walker AcademyElementary · Grades K–5 · 675 students
PublicOrange County Educational Arts AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 643 students
CharterJefferson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 616 students
PublicScholarship Prep - Orange CountyElementary · Grades K–8 · 615 students
CharterJohn Muir Fundamental ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 557 students
PublicWashington ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 529 students
PublicPio Pico ElementaryElementary · Grades K–7 · 501 students
PublicAndrew Jackson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 493 students
PublicEdward Russell ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 473 students
PublicAbraham Lincoln ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 468 students
PublicMartin Luther King Jr. ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 457 students
PublicMartin ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 443 students
PublicEdward B. Cole AcademyElementary · Grades K–5 · 431 students
CCharterGeorge Washington Carver ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 429 students
PublicGarfield ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 428 students
PublicLowell ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 426 students
PublicWilson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 422 students
PublicFairhaven ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 421 students
CPublicWallace R. Davis ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 413 students
PublicTaft ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 408 students
C-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.