Orange Grove Elementary

Orange Grove Elementary is one of the small primary schools in Whittier, California, overseen by Whittier City, with 324 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Orange Grove Elementary sits 30% below that benchmark.

Whittier City comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 5,288 students; Orange Grove Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Orange Grove Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school reports 2% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Orange Grove Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Orange Grove Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Orange Grove Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Whittier Independent Study, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Orange Grove Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orange Grove Elementary has ticked down 20%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 324 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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