Special education center · Anaheim Union High · Buena Park, California

Hope

Buena Park · 7–Adult · 231 students (2024–25)

A special education school: students are placed here through their IEP team, so we publish its results without a rating.

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Common questions

How are students placed here?

Students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery. Confirm placement with Anaheim Union High. Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

40 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26 (94 of 234), meaning they missed 10% or more of school days. 0 of 237 students were suspended at least once in 2025–26. Evidence ↓

How do I visit Hope?

Call the office at (714) 220-4198 to ask about a visit. Questions to bring are under Next steps. Evidence ↓

Life at school

How many students here graduate in four years?

No student graduated in four years in 2024–25.

State graduation, readiness, college-going, attendance and suspension records

The four-year rate counts regular high school diplomas only, not a certificate of completion. Ask how many students here finish with each, and what each one leads to.

Preparation · each measure describes a different student group

Graduated in four years

0%

2024–25 · 0 of 28 students who started 9th grade together

Ready for college or career (state measure)

0%

2024–25 · 0 of 28 students in the state’s measure

Ask: How does the school track each student’s IEP goals, and how does it plan the move after high school?

Where these figures come fromEach measure’s source, student group and definition
Graduated in four years
2024–25 · 0 of 28 students who started 9th grade together. California Department of Education, adjusted cohort graduation records.
Ready for college or career (state measure)
2024–25 · 0 of 28 students in the state’s measure. California Department of Education, College/Career Indicator (CCI), overall “Prepared” rate, among the students in the indicator’s group. Prepared is CDE’s overall classification, not AP participation or a college admission rate.

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

40 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26. That means they missed 10% or more of school days. 0 of 237 students were suspended at least once in 2025–26.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism and suspension files, 2025–26
Students
chronic absence: 94 of 234 students counted for it; suspension: 0 of 237 students enrolled during the year

Chronically absent, 2025–26

40 in 100This school

94 of 234 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

Suspensions, 2025–26

0 of 237

students were suspended at least once.

Ask: When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?

Chronic absence by grade2025–26 · per 100 students, with counts
  • Grades 7–8: 36 in 100, 18 of 50
  • Grades 9–12: 41 in 100, 76 of 184
Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at Hope

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

Questions for your visit ↓

Teach here? Tell us Anaheim Union High’s email domain so staff can answer our workplace questions.

Every learner

Who goes here?

Hispanic or Latino students are the largest group here: 57%.

Students, families and teachers

Who are the students?

2025–26 · students counted
1. Hispanic or Latino: 57%2. White: 15%3. Asian: 15%4. Filipino: 7%Unallocated share: 6%. 100% minus available shares; not a student group.Reported shares2025–26
  1. Hispanic or Latino57%
  2. White15%
  3. Asian15%
  4. Filipino7%
  5. Black or African American—
  6. Two or more races—
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native—
  8. Pacific Islander—
  9. Not reported—
  10. Unallocated share6%
A dash means the share isn’t available; it isn’t zero. The unallocated share is what’s left after the shares we have; it isn’t a student group. Source and comparisons: the full student mix below.

Who are the families and teachers?

69%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 159 of 231.

33teachers, 2024–25

12 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

3%in their first year, 2024–25

54%of teaching positions with proper credential and placement, 2021–22

Are English learners moving up on the state’s English test?

27% of English learners here moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026.

Spring 2025 to spring 2026 · English learners with state English test (ELPAC) scores in both years

This school · 3 of 11 English learners27%

Shown as reported, with no comparison. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Data source: California Department of Education, 2026 Dashboard ↗.

Ask: Which services and therapies does each student get during the school day, and who provides them?

Full student mix, comparisons and sources, 2025–26
Students, 2025–26Here
Hispanic or Latino57%
White15%
Asian15%
Filipino7%
Black or African American—
Two or more races—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—

Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.

How the credential rate is counted

CDE SARC report 2024–25, measured 2021–22: 54% of teaching positions, 16.7 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 30.8 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.

Next steps

How are students placed here?

Confirm placement with Anaheim Union High.

School website: hope.auhsd.us ↗Office: (714) 220-4198Administrator: Louie Lemonnier
7901 Knott Avenue, Buena Park 90620

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm placement with Anaheim Union High.

Questions for your visit

  1. How does the school track each student’s IEP goals, and how does it plan the move after high school?
  2. When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?
  3. Which services and therapies does each student get during the school day, and who provides them?
  4. How are my child’s IEP goals set, reviewed and shared with our family?
  5. What transition services help students plan for life, training or work after school?
  6. Which students finish with a regular diploma and which with a certificate of completion, and what does each lead to?

Office (714) 220-41987901 Knott Avenue, directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

CDE assessment recordsCDE CAASPP 2026 · every level, as published · raw grade–subject rows

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

All Grades is an aggregate, not another group of students. Same-year grade groups are not matched children. A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

The spring 2026 CAASPP records we hold have no English or math rows for this school. Its earlier results are under Every tested year.

Every tested year2015–2023 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresExceededMet or exceeded
2023 · English0——
2023 · Math0——
2019 · English———
2019 · Math———
2017 · English———
2017 · Math———
2016 · English0——
2016 · Math0——
2015 · English0——
2015 · Math0——

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2023 · Grade 7 · English0—
2023 · Grade 7 · Math0—
2019 · Grade 8 · English——
2019 · Grade 8 · Math——
2017 · Grade 7 · English——
2017 · Grade 11 · English——
2017 · Grade 7 · Math——
2017 · Grade 11 · Math——
2016 · Grade 11 · English0—
2016 · Grade 11 · Math0—
2015 · Grade 7 · English0—
2015 · Grade 8 · English0—
2015 · Grade 11 · English0—
2015 · Grade 7 · Math0—
2015 · Grade 8 · Math0—
2015 · Grade 11 · Math0—

“Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Graduation and readinessstate records · each rate for its own year and class of students
Graduation rate
0%
28 students in the adjusted graduation cohort

CDE reporting year 2025. Graduation uses an adjusted four-year cohort; A–G completion and college-going use their separately reported populations. These source periods and populations differ from CAASPP 2026. Rates shown here do not form a SchoolScope score or rank.

MeasureSource record
This school · CCI overall PreparedCDE College/Career Indicator · CCI source year 2025 · all students · all students in the current four-year graduation cohort, plus only Prepared fifth-year graduates from the prior cohort. Overall CCI Prepared rate 0% · numerator 0 students classified Prepared · denominator 28 CCI students.
AP pathway among CCI Prepared studentsCDE College/Career Indicator · CCI source year 2025 · all students · AP-pathway numerator 0 · denominator 0 (CCI Prepared students). Share among Prepared students: not calculable, because no student here was classified Prepared. This measure uses Prepared students as its denominator, not the whole CCI cohort; it is not an AP exam-taking rate or a count of AP courses offered. That cohort includes all students in the current four-year graduation cohort plus only Prepared fifth-year graduates from the prior cohort. In 2025 the pathway accepts two qualifying AP exams, two qualifying AP courses, or a combination of one of each in different subjects.

This CDE-reported school CCI record has its own population and period. It does not recalculate a SchoolScope score, factor, or rank.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 48 in 100 → 2025–26 · 40 in 100 · −8 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 0 of 245 → 2025–26 · 0 of 237 · 0.0 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26
Female42 in 10052 in 100
Male32 in 10034 in 100
Asian19 in 10029 in 100
Filipino7 in 10025 in 100
Hispanic or Latino49 in 10046 in 100
White19 in 10033 in 100
Students with disabilities36 in 10040 in 100
English learners47 in 10031 in 100
Low-income40 in 10047 in 100
All students36 in 10040 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Advanced coursework, federal snapshot2023–24 · Civil Rights Data Collection · dated historical snapshot
MeasureThis school
AP offerednot reported
AP course countnot reported
AP enrollment (male/female)not reported
IB participationnot reported
Dual enrollmentnot offered
Algebra I in grade 8not reported
Calculus sections0
Physics sections0
Chemistry sections0
Reported male/female enrollment (CRDC)234

Shown, never scored. Participation counts use reported male and female categories in both course and enrollment records. A missing value means not reported, never zero.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$14,929 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 29,183 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$1,178 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 231

Central federal expenditures attributed here$236 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 231

District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,601 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 61%Instruction support 9%Student services 11%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 2%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$289,723,56061.33%61%
Instruction support$39,645,2588.39%9%
Student services$53,517,58111.33%11%
Administration$33,430,2517.08%7%
Buildings & maintenance$47,349,11710.02%10%
Other$8,713,7631.84%2%
Total$472,379,530100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $472,379,530 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$14,929 per pupil
2020$13,642 per pupil
2019$13,449 per pupil
2018$12,615 per pupil
2017$12,441 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders1.8%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 90620 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 90620 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$126,094
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33%
ZIP-area population46,608
Median age38.4 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. See all schools in ZIP code 90620 →

Downloads and methodologyCSV · sources · corrections

Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · staffing and finance name their own sources and years beside each figure · Data updated October 15, 2026.

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