Excelsior Elementary

Excelsior Elementary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Garden Grove, California, one of the schools within Garden Grove Unified. Current enrollment sits at 426 students spanning grades K through 6.

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

Looking at the student body, Excelsior Elementary reports that Asian students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder is composed of 35% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Excelsior Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at Excelsior Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Excelsior Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 31.5%; actual is 71.0%, +39.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that 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%. Excelsior Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Mitchell Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Excelsior Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Excelsior Elementary has decreased 8%, going from 463 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 today.

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