Central OC Times

Out of 20,625 students enrolled in Newport-Mesa Unified School District, 7.3 percent were in fifth-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 8.8 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	1,593	7.7
First	1,359	6.6
Second	1,482	7.2
Third	1,455	7.1
Fourth	1,437	7
Fifth	1,512	7.3
Sixth	1,622	7.9
Seventh	1,633	7.9
Eighth	1,559	7.6
Ninth	1,711	8.3
10th	1,757	8.5
11th	1,692	8.2
12th	1,813	8.8