Parkview Elementary

Parkview Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Garden Grove, California, operated by Garden Grove Unified, teacheing 433 students in grades K through 6.

Parkview Elementary is one of 64 schools operated by Garden Grove Unified, a district that caters to 36,994 students overall.

Demographically, Parkview Elementary reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 33% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parkview 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 32.0%; Parkview Elementary posts 53.6%, +21.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Orange County shows 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%. Parkview Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Izaak Walton Intermediate, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkview Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 28% to 33%.

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