Garfield Elementary

Garfield Elementary is an elementary-level community of micro-enrollment scale in Eureka, California, one of the schools within Garfield Elementary, instructing 73 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 84% smaller than typical.

Operationally, Garfield Elementary answers to Garfield Elementary, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Garfield Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Humboldt County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Garfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 76.2%, a residual of +13.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Humboldt County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,160 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Garfield Elementary is one of 92 public schools in Humboldt County (combined enrollment of about 17,319 students).

The closest other public school is Freshwater Elementary, roughly 2.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garfield Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garfield Elementary has grew 18%, going from 62 students in 2018 to 73 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 3% to 10%. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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