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What's the vibe like in the hallways at George B. Miller Elementary right now?
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Enrollment
502
Elementary
DISTRICT 499 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRALIA ELEMENTARY·NCES 060807000779
George B. Miller Elementary
7751 Furman Rd., La Palma, CA 90623 · (714) 228-3270 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of California public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
273 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (71).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
64.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.3pp since 2014
Math
57.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +9.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 35.3% | 29.0% | 14.5% | 21.2% |
| Math | 28.3% | 29.4% | 21.9% | 20.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.3% | 57.6% |
| 2023-24 | 63.3% | 61.3% |
| 2022-23 | 64.0% | 59.5% |
| 2021-22 | 64.5% | 58.5% |
| 2018-19 | 74.5% | 73.9% |
| 2017-18 | 77.3% | 70.6% |
| 2016-17 | 67.7% | 61.1% |
| 2015-16 | 63.0% | 59.0% |
| 2014-15 | 59.0% | 48.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like George B. Miller Elementary
George B. Miller Elementary's state test result (61.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| George B. Miller Elementary this school | 502 | 54.4% | 61.9% |
| Plymouth Elementary Monrovia | 547 | 51.7% | 59.6% |
| Buena Terra Elementary Buena Park | 627 | 56.0% | 76.0% |
| Stanton Elementary Castro Valley | 515 | 53.0% | 54.6% |
| Sequoia Elementary Westminster | 440 | 58.4% | 54.3% |
| Fletcher Mandarin Language & GATE Academy Orange | 493 | 48.7% | 59.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where George B. Miller Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #1,030 of 5,151 | #148 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #1,167 of 5,172 ▼ 208 | #160 of 382 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #1,070 of 5,172 ▼ 1 | #145 of 382 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #1,636 of 5,116 | #126 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #2,402 of 5,915 | #181 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.8:1 | #3,570 of 5,352 | #192 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #766 of 5,354 | #65 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.4% | #3,724 of 5,625 | #219 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #2,415 of 3,837 | #226 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
502
-62 (-11%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 497
Student : Teacher
23.8:1
was 23.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 502 | 21.1 | 23.8:1 | 54% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 22 | 22.7:1 | 57% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 24 | 22.0:1 | 54% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 564 | 24 | 23.5:1 | 40% (223) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 22 | 25.9:1 | 41% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 24 | 23.7:1 | 40% (226) |
| 2010-11 | 570 | N/A | N/A | 43% (243) |
| 2000-01 | 577 | 24 | 24.0:1 | 17% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 497 | 18 | 27.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for George B. Miller Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (571 to 502); teachers down 4% (22 to 21.1).
About George B. Miller Elementary
George B. Miller Elementary serves students in La Palma, California, as a mid-sized elementary school. It enrolls 502 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 6.
George B. Miller Elementary is run by Centralia Elementary, whose 8 schools enroll 3,990 students.
No group is above 50% at George B. Miller Elementary; the largest is Hispanic, at 41%. After that, the student body is 34% Asian, 14% White, 8% multiracial, and 2% Black. The diversity index for George B. Miller Elementary is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 21.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 23.8:1. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. Roughly 54% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Orange County average a similar 55%.
Among California public elementary schools, George B. Miller Elementary outscored 84%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
George B. Miller Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 61.9%, compared with a predicted 47.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Orange County, median household income comes to about $116,289, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 44% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 649 public schools and about 430,458 students.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, Walker Junior High, is the closest to George B. Miller Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of George B. Miller Elementary. Among its closest neighbors with test data, George B. Miller Elementary is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 11% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Centralia Elementary
- Buena Terra ElementaryElementary · 627 students
- Los Coyotes ElementaryElementary · 568 students
- Centralia ElementaryElementary · 496 students
- Glen H. Dysinger Sr. ElementaryElementary · 468 students
- San Marino ElementaryElementary · 465 students
- Danbrook ElementaryElementary · 433 students
Other schools in La Palma
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 1,983 students
- Walker Junior HighMiddle · 890 students
- Los Coyotes ElementaryElementary · 568 students
- Steve Luther ElementaryElementary · 403 students
Nearby schools
- Walker Junior High0.5 mi · 890
- John F. Kennedy High0.6 mi · 1,983
- Los Coyotes Elementary0.7 mi · 568
- Raymond Temple Elementary0.8 mi · 431
- Arthur F. Corey Elementary0.8 mi · 341
- Buena Terra Elementary0.9 mi · 627
Frequently asked questions
About George B. Miller ElementaryHow many students attend George B. Miller Elementary?
George B. Miller Elementary enrolls approximately 502 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does George B. Miller Elementary serve?
George B. Miller Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does George B. Miller Elementary have?
George B. Miller Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.8:1.
What is the student diversity at George B. Miller Elementary?
Student demographics at George B. Miller Elementary are roughly 14% White, 41% Hispanic, 2% Black, 34% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is George B. Miller Elementary in?
George B. Miller Elementary is part of Centralia Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.