James Irvine Intermediate

James Irvine Intermediate is an intermediate school of small scale in Garden Grove, California, operated by Garden Grove Unified, works with 532 students in grades 7 through 8.

Garden Grove Unified runs 64 schools in total, collectively educating 36,994 students. James Irvine Intermediate is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, James Irvine Intermediate logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. Other groups include 39% Asian, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, James Irvine Intermediate logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, James Irvine Intermediate sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 26.9%; actual is 57.2%, +30.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which James Irvine Intermediate is one.

Post Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around James Irvine Intermediate. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts James Irvine Intermediate at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 696 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 50% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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