Hilton D. Bell Intermediate

Hilton D. Bell Intermediate is an intermediate school of moderately sized scale in Garden Grove, California, one of the schools within Garden Grove Unified, educateing 632 students in grades 7 through 8.

Hilton D. Bell Intermediate is one of 64 schools operated by Garden Grove Unified, a district that educates 36,994 students overall.

On demographics, Hilton D. Bell Intermediate logs that the largest single group is Asian at 31%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 29% White, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, On paper, Hilton D. Bell Intermediate has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Hilton D. Bell Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Hilton D. Bell Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Hilton D. Bell Intermediate ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.7%; Hilton D. Bell Intermediate posts 75.3%, +20.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Hilton D. Bell Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

Enders Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hilton D. Bell Intermediate ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 62.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hilton D. Bell Intermediate has changed only slightly, going from 624 students in 2018 to 632 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 44% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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