Los Amigos High

Los Amigos High is a four-year high school of sprawling scale in Fountain Valley, California, one of the schools within Garden Grove Unified, enrolling 1,430 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 71% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Garden Grove Unified runs 64 schools in total, collectively educating 36,994 students. Los Amigos High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Los Amigos High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 13% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Los Amigos High logs 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at Los Amigos High 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Los Amigos High sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 24.5%; actual is 43.5%, +19.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Los Amigos High is one campus in the mix.

Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Los Amigos High. On composite proficiency, Los Amigos High comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Los Amigos High operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Los Amigos High has shrank 21%, going from 1,812 students in 2018 to 1,430 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment declined from 18% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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