Bolsa Grande High

Bolsa Grande High is one of the large high schools in Garden Grove, California, part of Garden Grove Unified, with 1,701 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 103% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Within Garden Grove Unified, which oversees 64 schools and 36,994 students, Bolsa Grande High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Bolsa Grande High lists that Asian students make up the majority at 57%; the rest reads as 38% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bolsa Grande High ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 28.1%; Bolsa Grande High posts 56.1%, +28.0 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Bolsa Grande High is one campus in the mix.

A. G. Cook Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bolsa Grande High. On composite proficiency, Bolsa Grande High comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bolsa Grande High has contracted 16%, going from 2,016 students in 2018 to 1,701 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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