John Murdy Elementary

John Murdy Elementary is an average-sized primary school in Garden Grove, California, operated by Garden Grove Unified. The school teaches 689 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 48% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Garden Grove Unified comprises 64 schools with combined enrollment of 36,994 students; John Murdy Elementary is among them.

On demographics, John Murdy Elementary logs that 80% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, John Murdy Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John Murdy Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 37.0%; actual is 68.5%, +31.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which John Murdy Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Leo Carrillo Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, John Murdy Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 49%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 689 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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