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Elementary Schools in Santa Ana Unified


At a glance
DistrictSanta Ana Unified1257th of 1,530 California districtsFull district overview →
34
Schools
18,032
Students
Top rankedJohn Muir Fundamental Elementary1471st of 5,817 California elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Martin R. Heninger Elementary up 601 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Taft Elementary 15.6 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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Summary:

Santa Ana Unified has 34 elementary schools serving different grade spans, including K–5, K–6 and K–8, so families will find a varied set of schools across the area. In 2025–26, the average school scored 28% in ELA, 22% in math and 17% in science, below state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. Results also varied widely from school to school. The clearest takeaway is that the area-wide average hides substantial differences, and only one school exceeded the state in ELA.

John Muir Fundamental Elementary stands out overall, leading ELA at 60% and math at 56%, and scoring 38% in science. Its ELA result was 13 percentage points above the next-highest school, Jim Thorpe Fundamental, at 47%; its math score was 14 points higher than Jim Thorpe’s 42%. Science results at the top were nearly tied: Greenville Fundamental Elementary scored 38%, just ahead of John Muir and Jim Thorpe, both also at about 38%. At the low end, Romero-Cruz Academy had the lowest ELA score, 13%; Pio Pico Elementary had the lowest math score, 8%; and Carl Harvey Elementary had the lowest science score, 0%. SchoolDigger ranks John Muir at the 75th statewide percentile with four stars; Greenville and Jim Thorpe have three stars.

Recent school-average results show limited progress: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell by about 1 percentage point, math was essentially flat and science rose by about 1 point. The gap from the state widened in all three subjects—by about 1 point in ELA, 1 in math and 3 in science. SchoolDigger’s average statewide percentile rank also fell, from 24 to 20. Context measures do not neatly sort schools by results: 33 schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25, ranging from 70% at John Muir to 97% at Martin Luther King Junior; Adams Elementary, at 96%, scored above the group averages in all three subjects. Monte Vista Elementary instead reported 65% directly certified for free meals in 2024–25. Ratios ranged from 15.6 students per teacher at Taft Elementary to 25.3 at Jim Thorpe, another reminder that these measures alone do not describe school results.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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