Gardenhill Elementary

Gardenhill Elementary operates as a moderately sized primary school in La Mirada, California, part of Norwalk-La Mirada Unified. Current enrollment sits at 633 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 14,560 students; Gardenhill Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Gardenhill Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder consists of 11% Asian, 11% White, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Gardenhill Elementary reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Gardenhill Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.8%; this one delivers 57.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Gardenhill Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Arlie F. Hutchinson Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gardenhill Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Gardenhill Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Gardenhill Elementary's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 764 (now 633). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 25% to 11%. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

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