Is Jim Thorpe Fundamental a good school?

Jim Thorpe Fundamental ranks 2210 th of 5862 California elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.

How many students attend Jim Thorpe Fundamental?

In the 2023-24 school year, 789 students attended Jim Thorpe Fundamental.

What is the racial makeup of Jim Thorpe Fundamental?

Students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental are 90% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more races, 2% White.

Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Summary:

Jim Thorpe Fundamental is an elementary school located in Santa Ana, California, serving 825 students in grades K-5 and part of the Santa Ana Unified School District. This high-performing school consistently outperforms the district and state in academic assessments, with strong results across diverse student groups.

Jim Thorpe Fundamental's academic performance is particularly noteworthy, with 50.26% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to 30.96% for the district and 47.04% for the state. In Mathematics, 43.27% of students were proficient or better, surpassing the district's 21.03% and the state's 35.54%. The school also outperforms the district and state in CAST Science assessments. Additionally, Jim Thorpe Fundamental's student subgroups, such as Asian, Hispanic, and English Language Learners, consistently rank in the top quartile of California elementary schools.

Compared to nearby schools within the Santa Ana Unified School District, Jim Thorpe Fundamental outperforms its peers in academic achievement, student group performance, and attendance metrics. However, when compared to schools in the neighboring Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Jim Thorpe Fundamental's academic performance is generally lower, though it still maintains a strong standing within its own district. The school's challenges lie in addressing the socioeconomic needs of its community, with a high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the importance of targeted interventions and additional resources to ensure all students have the opportunity to thrive.

Detail:

Public K-5

2450 West Alton
Santa Ana, CA 92704-7118

(714) 430-5800

District: Santa Ana Unified

SchoolDigger Rank:
2210^th of 5,862 California Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures: $6,346

Student/teacher ratio: 23.6

Number of students: 789

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:

89.9%

Asian:

5.6%

Two or more races:

2.4%

Free/discounted lunch recipients: 61.3%

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Performance Trends

Compare Details Jim Thorpe Fundamental ranks better than 62.3% of elementary schools in California. It also ranks 2^nd among 34 ranked elementary schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District. (See more...)

Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 56.46. (See more...)

Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.

Student Body

Compare Details Racial makeup is: Hispanic (89.9%), Asian (5.6%), two or more races (2.4%). (See more...)

Compare Details 61.3% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)

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Teachers

Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Jim Thorpe Fundamental is 23.6, which is the highest among 34 elementary schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District! (See more...)

Compare Jim Thorpe Fundamental employs 33.3 full-time teachers.

Finance

Compare Details The average total spent per student at Jim Thorpe Fundamental is $6,346, which is the lowest among 34 elementary schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District!

Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Jim Thorpe Fundamental:

SchoolDigger ranks Jim Thorpe Fundamental 2210^th of 5862 California public elementary schools. (See Jim Thorpe Fundamental in the ranking list.)

Elementary School Test Score Ratings by Student Subgroup:

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Santa Ana Unified:

SchoolDigger ranks Santa Ana Unified 1241^st of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for Jim Thorpe Fundamental

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Rank History for all students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2004	62.69	1585^th	4809	67.0%
2005	59.09	1791^st	4822	62.9%
2006	67.10	1462^nd	4818	69.7%
2007	58.92	1879^th	5113	63.3%
2008	70.63	1374^th	5113	73.1%
2009	66.36	1617^th	5193	68.9%
2010	72.19	1361^st	5314	74.4%
2011	81.81	904^th	5377	83.2%
2012	81.83	924^th	5390	82.9%
2013	79.75	1071^st	5530	80.6%
2015	62.08	1850^th	5611	67.0%
2016	65.22	1751^st	5614	68.8%
2017	76.47	1275^th	5692	77.6%
2018	74.11	1395^th	5662	75.4%
2019	69.86	1608^th	5789	72.2%
2021	47.54	682^nd	1417	51.9%
2022	52.53	2415^th	5883	58.9%
2023	62.21	1938^th	5874	67.0%
2024	56.46	2210^th	5862	62.3%

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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	62.37	769^th	3246	76.3%
2019	26.22	2763^rd	3275	15.6%
2021	54.13	166^th	602	72.4%
2022	60.17	750^th	3311	77.3%
2023	61.75	724^th	3250	77.7%
2024	65.04	542^nd	3160	82.8%

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Rank History for Special Education students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2023	69.17	490^th	2420	79.8%
2024	35.19	1547^th	2634	41.3%

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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	87.54	390^th	5084	92.3%
2019	84.20	527^th	5173	89.8%
2021	70.59	233^rd	1110	79.0%
2022	63.76	1480^th	5264	71.9%
2023	75.05	988^th	5374	81.6%
2024	66.49	1428^th	5511	74.1%

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Rank History for Homeless students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2023	89.58	18^th	336	94.6%
2024	87.97	23^rd	364	93.7%

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Rank History for Female students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	68.97	1552^nd	5413	71.3%
2019	61.06	1924^th	5492	65.0%
2021	42.56	659^th	1267	48.0%
2022	49.22	2453^rd	5635	56.5%
2023	57.20	2074^th	5617	63.1%
2024	55.81	2133^rd	5605	61.9%

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Rank History for Disabled students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	84.58	221^st	2128	89.6%
2019	82.71	295^th	2585	88.6%
2021	57.89	85^th	293	71.0%
2022	67.69	455^th	2227	79.6%

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Rank History for Military Connected students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2023	45.31	80^th	140	42.9%

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Rank History for Male students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	76.36	1215^th	5431	77.6%
2019	75.85	1262^nd	5510	77.1%
2021	51.74	544^th	1272	57.2%
2022	54.80	2199^th	5663	61.2%
2023	65.51	1703^rd	5650	69.9%
2024	55.68	2182^nd	5636	61.3%

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Rank History for Asian students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	82.77	60^th	1071	94.4%
2019	77.37	195^th	1149	83.0%
2022	75.24	270^th	1154	76.6%

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Rank History for Hispanic students at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	85.05	492^nd	4830	89.8%
2019	80.21	703^rd	4963	85.8%
2022	62.59	1493^rd	5084	70.6%
2023	75.19	950^th	5098	81.4%
2024	66.69	1323^rd	5102	74.1%

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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

Data source: California Department of Education

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by a parent
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Worst experience having my child go to this school. Teacher is very rude and non communicative. Talking to principal does not help because they end up siding with teachers as opposed to listening to parent's concerns. Tried discussing a matter about my child and teacher had even hung phone up on me and spoke to me very disrespectfully. They do not treat each child as an individual and expect them to all be at same level. I understand that there are rules and they expect a certain standard but they take it to a whole other level. Regret putting my child here, thought we would be getting an excellent education because of school ratings but instead was an awful experience. I have also voiced my concerns to a few people and they have also heard from different friends that they also pulled their children out because of same problems. Would not recommend am sending my child to their home school. Close Quote

Enrollment information for Jim Thorpe Fundamental

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Year	White	African American	Asian	Hispanic	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Not Specified	Total
2000	101	13	90	559	0	n/a	n/a	0	763
2001	79	27	110	595	0	n/a	n/a	0	811
2002	62	27	112	599	1	n/a	n/a	8	809
2003	62	27	112	599	1	n/a	n/a	8	809
2004	66	23	100	620	0	n/a	n/a	5	814
2005	51	20	101	603	0	n/a	n/a	10	785
2006	50	14	99	641	0	n/a	n/a	5	809
2007	49	14	94	657	0	n/a	n/a	1	815
2008	40	9	88	671	n/a	n/a	n/a	0	808
2009	31	10	90	668	1	0	9	0	809
2010	31	10	91	674	1	0	5	0	812
2011	26	12	88	766	0	2	5	0	899
2012	31	9	94	889	0	5	10	0	1038
2013	28	7	92	932	0	5	9	0	1073
2014	27	6	98	926	0	4	9	0	1070
2015	23	5	91	914	0	3	3	0	1039
2016	21	4	75	911	1	3	10	0	1025
2017	19	4	78	889	1	1	15	0	1007
2018	14	4	76	890	1	0	16	0	1001
2019	16	4	69	820	0	0	18	0	927
2020	17	3	61	781	2	0	22	0	886
2021	21	4	69	762	1	1	25	0	883
2022	22	8	56	749	1	0	22	0	858
2023	18	4	51	730	1	0	21	0	825
2024	14	1	44	709	1	1	19	0	789

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Jim Thorpe Fundamental

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
2000	763	32.5	23.5	51
2001	811	36.5	22.2	41.1
2002	809	36.5	22.2	42.6
2003	809	36.5	22.2	42.6
2004	814	36.5	22.3	43.5
2005	785	34.0	23.1	45.8
2006	809	34.5	23.4	52.4
2007	815	33.0	24.7	52.6
2008	808	36.0	22.4	56.3
2009	809	37.0	20.7	58.3
2010	812	31.8	25.5	70.6
2011	899	n/a	n/a	71.1
2012	1038	37.5	27.6	n/a
2013	1073	35.5	30.2	68.8
2014	1070	35.5	30.1	77.2
2015	1039	36.0	28.8	79.6
2016	1025	36.0	28.4	83.2
2017	1007	35.0	28.7	74
2018	1001	34.0	29.4	62.9
2019	927	33.0	28.0	60.1
2020	886	n/a	n/a	60.7
2021	883	32.0	27.5	60
2022	858	34.3	24.9	36.8
2023	825	33.7	24.4	57.2
2024	789	33.3	23.6	61.3

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Jim Thorpe Fundamental

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
2000	763	32.5	23.5	51
2001	811	36.5	22.2	41.1
2002	809	36.5	22.2	42.6
2003	809	36.5	22.2	42.6
2004	814	36.5	22.3	43.5
2005	785	34.0	23.1	45.8
2006	809	34.5	23.4	52.4
2007	815	33.0	24.7	52.6
2008	808	36.0	22.4	56.3
2009	809	37.0	20.7	58.3
2010	812	31.8	25.5	70.6
2011	899	n/a	n/a	71.1
2012	1038	37.5	27.6	n/a
2013	1073	35.5	30.2	68.8
2014	1070	35.5	30.1	77.2
2015	1039	36.0	28.8	79.6
2016	1025	36.0	28.4	83.2
2017	1007	35.0	28.7	74
2018	1001	34.0	29.4	62.9
2019	927	33.0	28.0	60.1
2020	886	n/a	n/a	60.7
2021	883	32.0	27.5	60
2022	858	34.3	24.9	36.8
2023	825	33.7	24.4	57.2
2024	789	33.3	23.6	61.3

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.

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