Faylane Elementary

Faylane Elementary is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in Garden Grove, California, run under Garden Grove Unified, caters to 466 students in grades K through 6.

Garden Grove Unified comprises 64 schools with combined enrollment of 36,994 students; Faylane Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Faylane Elementary reports that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 40% Asian, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Faylane Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Faylane Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.2%; actual is 57.9%, +24.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Faylane Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Linton T. Simmons Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 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), Faylane Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 6% across the same window.

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