Schools · Garden Grove
Garden Grove, CA schools
Garden Grove’s public schools score well above California’s averages: 65% of students are proficient in reading against 48.5% statewide, and 94% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.6%. Kids attend one of 32 schools through grade 6, then one of 8 middle schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A
Garden Grove’s School Grade: A
The public schools Garden Grove’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 87% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
ATest scoresB+Graduation
California school districts we grade (1,139)Better than 87%
Lower resultsHigher results
California towns with similar household incomes (578)Better than 97%
High confidence. Built on 5,484 tested students and a graduating class of 3,946; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on California’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of California only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in California with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Garden Grove kids go to school
Grades 7–8
8 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Garden Grove Unified School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (Huntington Beach Union High)82%
State average 48.5%
Reading (grades K–8, Garden Grove Unified)65%
State average 48.5%
Math (Huntington Beach Union High)65%
State average 33.4%
Math (grades K–8, Garden Grove Unified)38%
State average 33.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
94% graduate on time
Graduation rate
94%
CA: 87.6%
Graduating class
3,946
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Garden Grove
Huntington Beach Union High School DistrictGrades 9–12 · 8 schools · 13,967 students
$18,463 per studentCA $21,206AGarden Grove Unified School DistrictGrades K–12 · 66 schools · 36,994 students
$21,521 per studentCA $21,206A-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 64 schools in Garden Grove
Showing 1–30 of 64 schools
Patton ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 904 students
PublicOcia A. Peters ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 893 students
PublicJohn Murdy ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 689 students
PublicLampson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 676 students
PublicBryant ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 571 students
PublicGilbert ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 515 students
PublicRiverdale ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 501 students
PublicSunnyside ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 500 students
PublicStanford ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 488 students
PublicDwight D. Eisenhower ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 480 students
PublicEarl Warren ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 474 students
PublicFaylane ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 466 students
PublicErnest O. Lawrence ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 447 students
C-PublicAnderson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 445 students
D-PublicLoyal Barker ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 444 students
PublicParkview ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 433 students
C-PublicThomas Paine ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 428 students
PublicBrookhurst ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 427 students
PublicExcelsior ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 426 students
PublicMorningside ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 416 students
PublicClinton ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 413 students
PublicEthel M. Evans ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 410 students
PublicEnders ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 400 students
PublicMitchell ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 390 students
PublicMeairs ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 387 students
PublicAgnes Ware Stanley ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 354 students
PublicA. G. Cook ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 345 students
PublicWoodbury ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 337 students
PublicGenevieve M. Crosby ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 325 students
PublicWakeham ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 307 students
PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.