Public school / Primary
Ralph A. Gates Dli Magnet Elementary
Lake Forest, California
- NCES ID
- 063386005298
- District
- Saddleback Valley Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ralph A. Gates Dli Magnet Elementary is a public primary school in Lake Forest, California, run by Saddleback Valley Unified. It enrols 940 students — the 9858th 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
940
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
27.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.3%
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 Saddleback Valley 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.
- 1Trabuco Hills High2,579 students
- 2El Toro High2,031 students
- 3Mission Viejo High1,646 students
- 4Laguna Hills High1,434 students
- 5Foothill Ranch Elementary1,056 students
- 6Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate1,041 students
- 7Serrano Intermediate977 students
- 8Melinda Heights Elementary959 students
- Enrollment+98.3%
- Teachers+61.9%
- Students per teacher+24.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−8.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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