La Quinta High

La Quinta High is a 9-12 campus of expansive scale in Westminster, California, overseen by Garden Grove Unified, teacheing 2,041 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 144% larger than the state mean of about 838.

Within Garden Grove Unified, which oversees 64 schools and 36,994 students, La Quinta High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, La Quinta High records that the largest single group is Asian, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 4% White. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, La Quinta High has 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting La Quinta High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 demographically-adjusted basis, La Quinta High is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 72.0%, a residual of +37.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate 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%. La Quinta High is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thomas Paine Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around La Quinta High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts La Quinta High at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 54.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 2,211 students in 2018 compared to 2,041 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment contracted from 81% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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