Lampson Elementary

Lampson Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in Garden Grove, California, operated by Orange Unified, instructing 676 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 45% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Orange Unified runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 23,790 students. Lampson Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lampson Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 8% Asian, 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lampson Elementary logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lampson Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 82% of students at Lampson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lampson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.7%; this one delivers 29.1%.

In the area at large, Orange County reports 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), Lampson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Earl Warren Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lampson Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 35.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 786 students in 2018 compared to 676 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 13% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.7:1 in 2018 to 26.7:1 today.

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