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Brea, California - 10 schools
An equity score of 35/100 ranks Brea-Olinda Unified #1137 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,114 per pupil, Brea-Olinda Unified ranks #1182 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
5,811
Total Enrollment
10
Schools
$14,114
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Brea-Olinda Unified operates 10 public schools serving 5,811 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 7 elementary, 2 high, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Orange County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,114 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 68.1% local, 25.3% state, and 6.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 35/100, ranked #1137 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 10 schools offering Advanced Placement (21 AP courses district-wide), a 352.4:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 20.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 43.1% Hispanic or Latino, 26.3% Asian, 18.9% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Falcon Academy of Science and Technology, with a diversity index of 70.8/100.
Its largest campus is Brea Olinda High, enrolling 1,676 students (29% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Bousd Online Academy, at 13 students, a 129x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Brea Olinda High accounts for 28.8% of all Brea-Olinda Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Brea-Olinda Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Brea-Olinda Unified school enrollment varies 129× across entities
Brea-Olinda Unified school enrollment ranges from 13 students (lowest) to 1,676 students (highest), a spread of 1,663 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Brea-Olinda Unified student-counselor ratio is 352:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Brea-Olinda Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 20.5% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Brea-Olinda Unified is typically wider than the Brea-Olinda Unified-aggregate figure suggests.