Grant Elementary

Grant Elementary is one of the medium-sized primary schools in Santa Monica, California, run under Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, with 562 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 15 schools in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified (8,616 students total), Grant Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Grant Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 28% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grant Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Grant Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Edison Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grant Elementary. On composite proficiency, Grant Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 562 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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