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What's something Ethel M. Evans Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 432 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN GROVE UNIFIED·NCES 061488001840
Ethel M. Evans Elementary
12281 Nelson St., Garden Grove, CA 92840 · (714) 663-6558 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.1:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
327 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 58% larger than its 6th grade class (55).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
55.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +12.3pp since 2014
Math
52.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +18.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 19 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 28.9% | 26.3% | 22.4% | 22.4% |
| Math | 28.3% | 24.4% | 26.5% | 20.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.3% | 52.6% |
| 2023-24 | 59.1% | 58.3% |
| 2022-23 | 57.6% | 53.9% |
| 2021-22 | 59.9% | 50.8% |
| 2018-19 | 62.7% | 59.8% |
| 2017-18 | 65.0% | 60.6% |
| 2016-17 | 66.1% | 52.5% |
| 2015-16 | 54.0% | 50.0% |
| 2014-15 | 43.0% | 34.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
56.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ethel M. Evans Elementary
Ethel M. Evans Elementary's state test result (56.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel M. Evans Elementary this school | 410 | 79.8% | 56.5% |
| Anderson Elementary Garden Grove | 445 | 80.4% | 27.0% |
| Bitely (Arlene) Elementary Rosemead | 409 | 80.7% | 54.0% |
| Savannah Elementary Rosemead | 365 | 77.3% | 42.8% |
| Faylane Elementary Garden Grove | 466 | 77.7% | 57.1% |
| Dewey Avenue Elementary San Gabriel | 341 | 78.3% | 37.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ethel M. Evans Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.5% | #1,309 of 5,151 | #174 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #1,430 of 5,172 ▼ 344 | #186 of 382 ▼ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #1,677 of 5,172 ▼ 376 | #198 of 382 ▼ 28 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.4pp | #1,373 of 5,116 | #105 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #3,555 of 5,915 | #280 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.1:1 | #3,839 of 5,352 | #211 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #2,394 of 5,354 | #200 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.8% | #2,207 of 5,625 | #119 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #1,619 of 3,837 | #147 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
410
-48 (-10%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 536
Student : Teacher
24.1:1
was 25.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 410 | 17 | 24.1:1 | 80% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 431 | 19 | 22.7:1 | 79% (339) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 18.1 | 23.1:1 | 77% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 18 | 25.4:1 | 66% (304) |
| 2017-18 | 501 | 22 | 22.8:1 | 73% (368) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 20 | 27.3:1 | 69% (375) |
| 2010-11 | 540 | N/A | N/A | 74% (400) |
| 2000-01 | 596 | 26 | 22.9:1 | 60% (360) |
| 1990-91 | 536 | 20 | 26.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ethel M. Evans Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (501 to 410); teachers down 23% (22 to 17).
About Ethel M. Evans Elementary
Ethel M. Evans Elementary sits in Garden Grove, California, and is classified as an elementary school. It enrolls 410 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 6.
Besides Ethel M. Evans Elementary, Garden Grove Unified runs 63 other schools. The district enrolls 36,994 students.
About 54% of the student body at Ethel M. Evans Elementary is Hispanic. Other groups include 40% Asian, 3% White, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County residents are about 34% Hispanic. A diversity index of 54% means there is a 54% chance two randomly chosen students at Ethel M. Evans Elementary are from different groups.
Ethel M. Evans Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.1:1, with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 80% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Orange County, the average eligibility rate is 55%.
Ethel M. Evans Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 84% of California public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Ethel M. Evans Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California schools. It scores 56.5%; the prediction is 32.8%.
Census data for Orange County show median household income comes to about $116,289, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 44%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 649 public schools and about 430,458 students.
Dr. Walter C. Ralston Intermediate is about 0.3 miles from Ethel M. Evans Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Ethel M. Evans Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 458 (2020-21) to 410 (2024-25). There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (24.1:1) than in 2020-21 (25.4:1).
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- Garden Grove HighHigh · 2,148 students
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- Pacifica HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Rancho Alamitos HighHigh · 1,439 students
Other schools in Garden Grove
- Garden Grove HighHigh · 2,148 students
- Bolsa Grande HighHigh · 1,701 students
- Santiago HighHigh · 1,664 students
- Pacifica HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Rancho Alamitos HighHigh · 1,439 students
- Patton ElementaryElementary · 904 students
Nearby schools
- Dr. Walter C. Ralston Intermediate0.3 mi · 485
- Agnes Ware Stanley Elementary0.5 mi · 354
- Garden Grove High0.7 mi · 2,148
- Faylane Elementary0.7 mi · 466
- Linton T. Simmons Elementary0.7 mi · 247
- Mark Twain Special Center0.8 mi · 101
Frequently asked questions
About Ethel M. Evans ElementaryHow many students attend Ethel M. Evans Elementary?
Ethel M. Evans Elementary enrolls approximately 410 students in grades KG-06.
Is Ethel M. Evans Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ethel M. Evans Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ethel M. Evans Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ethel M. Evans Elementary is approximately 24.1:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Ethel M. Evans Elementary?
Student demographics at Ethel M. Evans Elementary are roughly 3% White, 54% Hispanic, 0% Black, 40% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Ethel M. Evans Elementary?
Ethel M. Evans Elementary is overseen by Garden Grove Unified in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.