NCES CCD 2024-25 51 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Garden Grove, CA

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51 public K-12 schools in Garden Grove from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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51
Schools
28,816
Students
35.5/100
Avg Resource Index
23.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Garden Grove has more public-school enrollment than 96% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Garden Grove's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

35 of Garden Grove's 51 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 8 middle and 6 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Garden Grove's reporting schools show 69.0% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 23.1:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 36-point gap between A. G. Cook Elementary and Wakeham Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 4%
School count
Top 3%
Resource Index average
27th percentile
Teacher staffing
5th percentile

Garden Grove school enrollment varies 22× across entities

Garden Grove school enrollment ranges from 97 students (lowest) to 2,148 students (highest), a spread of 2,051 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Garden Grove reports 69.0% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Garden Grove student-teacher ratio is 23.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. A. G. Cook Elementary 51
2. Pacifica High 47
3. John Murdy Elementary 47
4. Patton Elementary 46
5. Loyal Barker Elementary 46
6. Ethel M. Evans Elementary 44
7. Bolsa Grande High 43
8. Rancho Alamitos High 43
9. Excelsior Elementary 43
10. Morningside Elementary 43
11. Garden Park Elementary 43
12. Marie L. Hare High 43
13. Santiago High 42
14. Parkview Elementary 42
15. Garden Grove High 41
16. Louis G. Zeyen Elementary 41
17. Earl Warren Elementary 40
18. Sunnyside Elementary 39
19. Enders Elementary 39
20. Merton E. Hill Elementary 37
21. James Irvine Intermediate 36
22. Stanford Elementary 36
23. Faylane Elementary 36
24. Thomas Paine Elementary 36
25. Anderson Elementary 35
26. Hilton D. Bell Intermediate 34
27. Donald S. Jordan Intermediate 34
28. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary 34
29. C. C. Violette Elementary 34
30. Alamitos Intermediate 33
31. Gilbert Elementary 33
32. Ernest O. Lawrence Elementary 33
33. Brookhurst Elementary 33
34. Agnes Ware Stanley Elementary 33
35. Genevieve M. Crosby Elementary 33
36. Ocia a. Peters Elementary 32
37. Dr. Walter C. Ralston Intermediate 32
38. Izaak Walton Intermediate 31
39. Linton T. Simmons Elementary 31
40. Clinton Elementary 30
41. Woodbury Elementary 30
42. Louis Lake Intermediate 29
43. Mitchell Elementary 28
44. Meairs Elementary 28
45. Riverdale Elementary 27
46. Mark Twain Special Center 27
47. Jordan Secondary Learning Center 27
48. Leroy L. Doig Intermediate 26
49. Bryant Elementary 24
50. Lampson Elementary 19

Showing top 50 of 51 schools.

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Garden Grove

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Loyal Barker Elementary 73.5/100
  2. 2 Hilton D. Bell Intermediate 71.9/100
  3. 3 Garden Park Elementary 71.9/100
  4. 4 Pacifica High 70.5/100
  5. 5 Patton Elementary 69.4/100

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Which Garden Grove school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

A. G. Cook Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Garden Grove schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Garden Grove, CA? ▼

Garden Grove has 51 public schools with a total enrollment of 28,816 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.