Overview
About El Tract
El Tract covers 232.3 acres and the city's address layer records 979 addresses inside the boundary across 973 parcels, on 8.62 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.141 acres. Thirty three of the thirty six street names inside begin with El, running from El Camino and El Campo through El Dorado, El Morro and El Toro to El Vino and El Viento; Knott Avenue, McNeil Lane and Western Avenue are the exceptions.
William Peak Park sits wholly inside the boundary, all 15.8 acres of it on El Dorado Drive, and the city zones another 12.3 acres as Open Space alongside 136.4 acres of 6,000 square foot one family residential lots. A 3.8 acre corner falls under the city's Entertainment Corridor Specific Plan. The boundary straddles a school district line: most of it feeds Raymond Temple Elementary, Orangeview Junior High and Western High, and the eastern part feeds Arthur F. Corey Elementary, Buena Park Middle and Buena Park High.
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How El Tract was built
Somebody sorted Buena Park's Spanish street names by their article, and this is the drawer marked el. Thirty six streets, and almost every one of them begins with the masculine singular. El Camino is the road, El Prado the meadow, El Cerro the hill, El Cielo the sky, El Viento the wind, El Verano the summer, El Rey the king, El Lucero the morning star, El Rosal the rose bush, El Toro the bull, El Veloz the swift one and El Vino the wine. Others are places rather than words: El Escorial and El Ferrol in Spain, El Paso, El Monte, El Centro and El Dorado closer to home.
Neighboring pockets of the city carry the same scheme in the other articles, la, los, santa, san and via, which is why the whole northwest quadrant reads like a Spanish grammar exercise from a car window. It is a naming system, not a coincidence, and it belongs to the years when California developers reached for mission Spanish as a matter of course. Those years were the 1950s here: the county assessor dates 886 of the 954 homes it can date inside the boundary to that decade, so almost the whole neighborhood went up inside ten years. About 979 addresses sit on 232 acres, on lots near a seventh of an acre, bounded by Knott and Western.
By the Numbers
El Tract by the numbers
Lifestyle
The El Tract lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving El Tract
El Tract is served by Centralia Elementary School District, Buena Park School District, Anaheim Union High School District and Fullerton Joint Union High School District. Elementary is split, most of the boundary in Raymond Temple Elementary's area with 431 students in grades K to 6 and the rest in Arthur F. Corey Elementary's with 341 in grades K to 5, middle school is split, most of the boundary in Orangeview Junior High's area with 612 students in grades 7 to 8 and the rest in Buena Park Middle's with 633 in grades 6 to 8, and high school is split, most of the boundary in Western High's area with 1,446 students in grades 9 to 12 and the rest in Buena Park High's with 1,682 in grades 9 to 12. Attendance boundaries are set by the districts and can change with a boundary review, so confirm the campus for a specific address before it matters to an offer.
9-12 · 1,682 students
7-12 · 231 students
6-8 · 641 students
6-8 · 633 students
K-5 · 646 students
K-6 · 627 students
K-5 · 559 students
K-5 · 490 students
K-6 · 468 students
K-6 · 465 students
K-6 · 431 students
K-5 · 365 students
K-5 · 341 students
FAQs
Common questions about El Tract
How big is El Tract?
Measured against the boundary the City of Buena Park publishes, El Tract covers 232.3 acres. The city's address layer records 979 addresses inside it across 973 parcels.
Why do the streets all begin with El?
Thirty three of the thirty six street names on the city's own centerline layer do, from El Camino and El Campo through El Dorado, El Morro and El Toro to El Vino and El Viento. Knott Avenue, McNeil Lane and Western Avenue are the three that do not.
When was El Tract built?
Seven maps were recorded between 1955 and 1959 by six different surveyors, the largest of them Tract 2548, recorded 4 June 1959 by Frank W. Richardson, which carries 199 lots. The county assessor dates 886 of the 954 homes it can date to the 1950s.
What is William Peak Park?
A 15.8 acre city park on El Dorado Drive that falls entirely inside the El Tract boundary. The city's park record puts the skatepark here.
Which schools serve El Tract?
Elementary: Raymond Temple Elementary over about 80 percent of the boundary and Arthur F. Corey Elementary over the remainder; Middle: Orangeview Junior High over about 80 percent of the boundary and Buena Park Middle over the remainder; High: Western High over about 80 percent of the boundary and Buena Park High over the remainder. Those are the campuses the districts' own attendance boundaries put this community in. Assignment can change with a boundary review, so confirm the campus for a specific address with the district.