Woodbury Elementary, Garden Grove CA

Original Research by School Decision on Woodbury Elementary

Woodbury Elementary sits in Garden Grove, a diverse and rapidly developing Orange County city anchored by one of the largest Vietnamese-American communities in the country. The school serves kindergarten through sixth grade and draws a student body that reflects the neighborhood's composition: the vast majority of students are Hispanic or Asian, and a substantial share of families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating widespread economic need.

Academic performance across tested grades shows consistent challenges. In English language arts, proficiency varies by grade; third grade reaches the mid-range while fourth grade drops considerably below, then recovers in fifth and sixth. In mathematics, performance is lower across all tested grades, with proficiency ranging from roughly one-quarter to just under one-half. Science data for grade five shows similar constraints. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Orange County, meaning the academic gains students make here trail what families might find in stronger-performing schools elsewhere in the county.

The school is small for its grade band, with an enrollment of roughly three hundred students spread fairly evenly across kindergarten through sixth. This size creates an intimate setting but may also limit the range of staffing, specialist support, and program breadth that larger schools can offer. The overwhelming majority of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which correlates with high rates of family economic stress and often signals that students may arrive at school with unmet basic needs.

Woodbury is a regular public elementary school operated by the Garden Grove Unified School District, the third-largest public district in Orange County. The district itself has undergone no major policy shifts or curriculum changes in recent years that would meaningfully alter how this school operates or what families might expect. Garden Grove as a place is experiencing growth through mixed-use infill projects and housing development driven by state affordable-housing mandates, and housing in the area is substantially above the California median and well above national benchmarks, so families in this attendance zone are likely managing significant housing costs.

For a family considering this school, the core question is how its academic trajectory and peer environment align with their child's needs. The student body is predominantly Hispanic and Asian, the school is resource-constrained by economic need in the community, and proficiency rates in core subjects are below the county median. Students with strong foundational skills and families able to provide intensive academic support at home might navigate this context successfully. Families seeking robust special services, enrichment programs, or peers with higher baseline academic preparation may want to investigate school choice options or ask the district directly about wraparound support, English learner services, and intervention programs available at the school. A parent may want to look into how the school addresses chronic needs and what resources exist beyond the classroom to help close performance gaps.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 58% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 431%

School 31% · District 54% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 46% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 56% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 52% · ▼ 11 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 419%

School 19% · District 55% · ▼ 36 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 59% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 63% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Science

Grade 523%

School 23% · District 39% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

This schoolGarden Grove Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.