Ethan B. Allen Elementary

Ethan B. Allen Elementary operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Fountain Valley, California, overseen by Garden Grove Unified. Current enrollment sits at 637 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Ethan B. Allen Elementary is one of 64 schools operated by Garden Grove Unified, a district that educates 36,994 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ethan B. Allen Elementary reports that Asian students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Ethan B. Allen Elementary 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 48.8%; Ethan B. Allen Elementary posts 89.0%, +40.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Ethan B. Allen Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: John Marshall Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ethan B. Allen Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.0%.

Ethan B. Allen Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ethan B. Allen Elementary has fell 16%, going from 758 students in 2018 to 637 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 83% to 78% over that span.

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