John Marshall Elementary

John Marshall Elementary operates as a close-knit primary school in Westminster, California, overseen by Garden Grove Unified. Current enrollment sits at 323 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 64 schools in Garden Grove Unified (36,994 students total), John Marshall Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, John Marshall Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 45% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting John Marshall Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at John Marshall Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John Marshall Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 31.4%; actual is 55.6%, +24.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), John Marshall Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ethan B. Allen Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John Marshall Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Marshall Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. John Marshall Elementary's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 436 (now 323). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 53% to 45% over that span.

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