South OC Times

Out of 53,199 students enrolled in Capistrano Unified School District, 6.5 percent were in first-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was 12th-grade with 9 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	3,730	7
First	3,456	6.5
Second	3,610	6.8
Third	3,635	6.8
Fourth	3,715	7
Fifth	3,834	7.2
Sixth	4,152	7.8
Seventh	4,238	8
Eighth	4,608	8.7
Ninth	4,268	8
10th	4,552	8.6
11th	4,611	8.7
12th	4,790	9