Garfield Elementary

Garfield Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Alhambra, California, run under Alhambra Unified, with 577 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Alhambra Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 14,548 students, Garfield Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Garfield Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% White.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Garfield Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Garfield Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Alhambra High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garfield Elementary. On composite proficiency, Garfield Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Garfield Elementary's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 600 (now 577). Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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