Linton T. Simmons Elementary

Linton T. Simmons Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Garden Grove, California, operated by Garden Grove Unified, hosts 247 students, covering grades K through 6. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Garden Grove Unified runs 64 schools in total, collectively educating 36,994 students. Linton T. Simmons Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Linton T. Simmons Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Other groups include 9% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Linton T. Simmons Elementary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Linton T. Simmons Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 23.8%; actual is 44.0%, +20.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Linton T. Simmons Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Louis Lake Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Linton T. Simmons Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Linton T. Simmons Elementary's enrollment has declined 38% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 247).

On the community side, members of the Linton T. Simmons Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.