Public school / Primary
Merton E. Hill Elementary
Garden Grove, California
- NCES ID
- 061488001851
- District
- Garden Grove Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Merton E. Hill Elementary is a public primary school in Garden Grove, California, run by Garden Grove Unified. It enrols 273 students — the 69286th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
273
Teachers
11.0
Students per teacher
24.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Garden Grove Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Garden Grove High2,247 students
- 2La Quinta High2,111 students
- 3Santiago High1,927 students
- 4Bolsa Grande High1,723 students
- 5Pacifica High1,648 students
- 6Los Amigos High1,604 students
- 7Rancho Alamitos High1,557 students
- 8Ocia A. Peters Elementary936 students
- Enrollment−42.4%
- Teachers−47.6%
- Students per teacher+12.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+24.6%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory