Ocia A. Peters Elementary

As an expansive K-5 school in Garden Grove, California, Ocia A. Peters Elementary caters to 893 students from grades K through 6, run under Garden Grove Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Ocia A. Peters Elementary sits 92% above that benchmark.

Garden Grove Unified runs 64 schools in total, collectively educating 36,994 students. Ocia A. Peters Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ocia A. Peters Elementary lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 36% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ocia A. Peters Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Ocia A. Peters Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ocia A. Peters Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.1%; Ocia A. Peters Elementary posts 51.6%, +21.4 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Ocia A. Peters Elementary is one.

Woodbury Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ocia A. Peters Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 28%: 1,236 students in 2018 compared to 893 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 32% to 36% across the same window.

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