Garden Park Elementary

Set in Garden Grove, California, Garden Park Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school, one of the schools within Garden Grove Unified. It caters to 248 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 47% below typical.

Garden Park Elementary is one of 64 schools operated by Garden Grove Unified, a district that serves 36,994 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Garden Park Elementary logs that 37% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% White, 24% Asian, 12% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Garden Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.8%; this one delivers 67.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Garden Park Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Loyal Barker Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garden Park Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 248 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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