Public school / Primary
Van Buren Elementary
Placentia, California
- NCES ID
- 063066004774
- District
- Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Van Buren Elementary is a public primary school in Placentia, California, run by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. It enrols 540 students — the 32639th 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
540
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
24.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
47.8%
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 Placentia-Yorba Linda 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.
- 1Valencia High2,543 students
- 2El Dorado High2,034 students
- 3Yorba Linda High1,568 students
- 4Esperanza High1,436 students
- 5Travis Ranch1,217 students
- 6Kraemer Middle954 students
- 7Fairmont Elementary846 students
- 8Yorba Linda Middle840 students
- Enrollment+13.9%
- Teachers+4.8%
- Students per teacher+10.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−29.6%
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