Public school / Primary
Chaparral Elementary
Ladera Ranch, California
- NCES ID
- 060744008751
- District
- Capistrano Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Chaparral Elementary is a public primary school in Ladera Ranch, California, run by Capistrano Unified. It enrols 627 students — the 24430th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
627
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
23.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
15.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Capistrano Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1San Juan Hills High2,857 students
- 2San Clemente High2,838 students
- 3Aliso Niguel High2,774 students
- 4Tesoro High2,217 students
- 5Capistrano Valley High2,029 students
- 6Dana Hills High1,965 students
- 7Ladera Ranch Middle1,196 students
- 8Marco Forster Middle1,082 students
- Enrollment+32.3%
- Teachers+28.6%
- Students per teacher+5.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−76.6%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory