South OC Times

Out of 26,717 students enrolled in Saddleback Valley Unified School District, 6.9 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	2,131	8
First	1,840	6.9
Second	1,878	7
Third	1,822	6.8
Fourth	1,855	6.9
Fifth	1,952	7.3
Sixth	1,971	7.4
Seventh	2,011	7.5
Eighth	2,045	7.7
Ninth	2,247	8.4
10th	2,288	8.6
11th	2,275	8.5
12th	2,402	9