Brookhurst Elementary

Located at 9821 William Dalton Way, in Garden Grove, California, Brookhurst Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that educates 427 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Garden Grove Unified.

Garden Grove Unified runs 64 schools in total, collectively educating 36,994 students. Brookhurst Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Brookhurst Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%; the rest breaks down as 29% Asian, 6% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Brookhurst Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.7%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +13.8 points.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Brookhurst Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Faylane Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookhurst Elementary. On composite proficiency, Brookhurst Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookhurst Elementary has contracted 8%, going from 464 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.