Meairs Elementary

Located at 8441 Trask Ave., in Garden Grove, California, Meairs Elementary is an intimate primary school that educates 387 students (grades K through 5), operated by Westminster.

Across the 16 schools in Westminster (7,864 students total), Meairs Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Meairs Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 35% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Meairs Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.5%; this one delivers 34.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Meairs Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Anderson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meairs Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meairs Elementary has edged down 32%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 40% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Meairs Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.