Clinton Elementary

Clinton Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Garden Grove, California, one of the schools within Garden Grove Unified, teacheing 413 students in grades K through 6.

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

In terms of who attends, Clinton Elementary lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Clinton Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Clinton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Clinton Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Santiago High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clinton Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clinton Elementary's enrollment has edged down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 651 (now 413). Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2025.

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