Garden Grove Elementary

Garden Grove Elementary is one of the intimate primary schools in Reseda, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 306 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Garden Grove Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Garden Grove Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 8% White, 8% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Garden Grove Elementary reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Garden Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Garden Grove 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 23.4%; Garden Grove Elementary posts 48.9%, +25.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Garden Grove Elementary is one.

Magnolia Science Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Garden Grove Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 30.3%.

Garden Grove Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 394 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.