Summary:
Four Orange Unified elementary schools serve kindergarten through sixth grade in ZIP code 92807, enrolling 2,194 students in total, with individual school enrollments from 389 to 805. In 2025–2026, all four scored above state averages in ELA, math and science: the area averages were 76%, 74% and 73%, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The area’s advantage was largest in science and math, at 37 and 36 percentage points, but results vary considerably by school. The most important distinction is that strong area averages mask a substantial school-to-school gap, especially in math: Imperial trails the other three, although it remains above the state average in all three subjects.
Anaheim Hills Elementary led ELA at 82% and math at 86%, while Crescent Elementary led science at 80%. Their leads over the next-highest schools were about 1 point in ELA, 5 in math and 1 in science; compared with the average of the other three schools, the leaders were ahead by 8, 16 and 9 points, respectively. Imperial Elementary had the lowest results in every subject: 62% in ELA, 54% in math and 60% in science—20, 32 and 20 points below the subject leaders. Nohl Canyon Elementary had the lowest reported chronic absenteeism, at 4%, compared with 13% at Imperial.
Recent score changes were mixed, with Imperial making the broadest gains: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its ELA rose 1 point, math 3 points and science 25 points. Anaheim Hills’ math rose 5 points, but its science fell 14; Crescent and Nohl Canyon science rose 10 and 11 points. Across the schools, average ELA fell 1 point, math rose 1 and science rose 8. SchoolDigger gave Crescent, Nohl Canyon and Anaheim Hills five stars in 2025–2026 and Imperial four; from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026, ranks improved for Anaheim Hills (298 to 152), Imperial (1,664 to 1,233) and Nohl Canyon (332 to 301), while Crescent’s rank shifted from 120 to 163. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures ranged from 19% at Anaheim Hills to 35% at Imperial; these are context, not an explanation of results. Imperial also had the lowest student–teacher ratio, 22.3, showing that a lower ratio did not correspond to higher scores in this group. Reported science results match each school’s fifth-grade values.
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