Summary:
There is one middle school, Raymond A. Villa Fundamental Intermediate, serving grades 6-8 in zip code 92701, which is part of the Santa Ana Unified district.
This school serves a community where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and it receives significant funding at over $23,500 per student. Despite this investment and having a better chronic absenteeism rate than the district or state average, academic proficiency is a major challenge. Performance is below average in all subjects, with mathematics being a critical area of concern where only about 11% of students are proficient, which is roughly half the district average.
While the school's statewide ranking has shown slight improvement over the past few years, it remains in the lower percentile. The data shows a particular need for strengthening math instruction across all grades, though there is a small positive note in 8th-grade science, where the school performs slightly above the district average. For parents, this indicates a school environment that successfully gets students to attend but is struggling to translate that attendance and high funding into strong academic outcomes, especially in core subjects like math.
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