Enrollment
230
Elementary
DISTRICT 432 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN GROVE UNIFIED·NCES 061488001889
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary
12081 South Magnolia St., Garden Grove, CA 92841 · (714) 663-6535 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL230 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
10 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
184 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 21 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 34 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 18% larger than its 6th grade class (34).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
55.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +21.6pp since 2014
Math
47.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +19.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 22 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 28.9% | 26.8% | 19.0% | 25.4% |
| Math | 25.9% | 21.7% | 27.3% | 25.2% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.6% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 56.6% | 51.6% |
| 2022-23 | 53.3% | 40.7% |
| 2021-22 | 47.9% | 38.3% |
| 2018-19 | 59.3% | 46.1% |
| 2017-18 | 56.7% | 50.8% |
| 2016-17 | 53.9% | 41.6% |
| 2015-16 | 42.0% | 39.0% |
| 2014-15 | 34.0% | 28.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Louis G. Zeyen Elementary
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary's state test result (53.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis G. Zeyen Elementary this school | 230 | 80.0% | 53.3% |
| Sanchez (George I.) Elementary Rosemead | 293 | 80.5% | 43.9% |
| Willard (Frances E.) Elementary Rosemead | 281 | 79.7% | 51.4% |
| New Lexington Elementary El Monte | 313 | 81.5% | 45.5% |
| John Marshall Elementary Westminster | 323 | 80.8% | 56.6% |
| Dewey Avenue Elementary San Gabriel | 341 | 78.3% | 37.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Louis G. Zeyen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #1,499 of 5,151 | #194 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #1,752 of 5,172 ▼ 320 | #211 of 382 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #1,642 of 5,172 ▼ 188 | #194 of 382 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.5pp | #824 of 5,116 | #48 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 230 | #5,219 of 5,915 | #396 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.2:1 | #3,901 of 5,352 | #221 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.6% | #1,871 of 5,354 | #157 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.0% | #2,188 of 5,625 | #116 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #2,055 of 3,837 | #195 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
230
-11 (-5%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 517
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
was 26.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 230 | 9.5 | 24.2:1 | 80% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 223 | 9.5 | 23.5:1 | 84% (187) |
| 2022-23 | 251 | 10 | 25.1:1 | 76% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 241 | 9 | 26.8:1 | 73% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 270 | 12 | 22.5:1 | 70% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 290 | 12 | 24.2:1 | 75% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 363 | N/A | N/A | 77% (279) |
| 2000-01 | 441 | 21 | 21.0:1 | 47% (207) |
| 1990-91 | 517 | 20 | 25.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Louis G. Zeyen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (270 to 230); teachers down 21% (12 to 9.5).
About Louis G. Zeyen Elementary
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school with an address in Garden Grove, California. It serves 230 students in kindergarten through 6. For comparison, elementary schools in California average about 465 students.
Garden Grove Unified has a total of 64 schools and 36,994 students, Louis G. Zeyen Elementary among them.
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 47%. The school is also 43% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 3% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 34%. Louis G. Zeyen Elementary has a diversity index of 60%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary's 9.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 24.2:1. That ratio is over the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 80%. The 55% average for public schools in Orange County is 25 points lower.
allk12 grades Louis G. Zeyen Elementary an A. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 20.6 points (53.3% versus 32.7%), a top-10% result in California on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Orange County, median household income is about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 649 public schools operate in Orange County, serving about 430,458 students.
Nearest public school: Marie L. Hare High, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Louis G. Zeyen Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Louis G. Zeyen Elementary ranks 3rd of 8 nearby schools, at 53.3% versus a 46.7% average.
NCES assigns Louis G. Zeyen Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary had 241 students in 2020-21 and 230 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease. Its ratio of students to teachers was 26.8:1 in 2020-21, and 24.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- Garden Grove HighHigh · 2,148 students
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- Santiago HighHigh · 1,664 students
- Pacifica HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Rancho Alamitos HighHigh · 1,439 students
Other schools in Garden Grove
- Garden Grove HighHigh · 2,148 students
- Bolsa Grande HighHigh · 1,701 students
- Santiago HighHigh · 1,664 students
- Pacifica HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Rancho Alamitos HighHigh · 1,439 students
- Patton ElementaryElementary · 904 students
Nearby schools
- Marie L. Hare High0.1 mi · 218
- Alamitos Intermediate0.6 mi · 581
- Stanford Elementary0.6 mi · 488
- Ernest O. Lawrence Elementary0.7 mi · 447
- Gilbert Elementary0.9 mi · 515
- Bryant Elementary0.9 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Louis G. Zeyen ElementaryHow large is Louis G. Zeyen Elementary?
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary enrolls approximately 230 students in grades KG-06.
Is Louis G. Zeyen Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Louis G. Zeyen Elementary have?
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary employs 10 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Louis G. Zeyen Elementary?
At Louis G. Zeyen Elementary, the student body is approximately 3% White, 47% Hispanic, 0% Black, 43% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Louis G. Zeyen Elementary?
Louis G. Zeyen Elementary is overseen by Garden Grove Unified in Orange County.
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