**California Collaborative on District Reform. (2024). Garden Grove Unified School District (USD) student enrollment & demographics [Collection of student demographic data prepared by Collaborative staff for the February 19–20, 2025 meeting of the California Collaborative on District Reform]. Available on Dropbox.
This document contains demographic information about Garden Grove Unified School District (GGUSD) and California student enrollment from 2023–24 across key demographic categories. In addition to students’ ethnicity/race and the overall “unduplicated count” of Local Control Funding Formula-targeted students, the data also indicate the specific percentages of students who have been identified as English learners, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, foster youth, and special education students.
EdSource. (2024). Garden Grove Unified [District-level results on California Smarter Balanced assessment]. https://caaspp.edsource.org/sbac/garden-grove-unified-30665220000000
To provide context on GGUSD’s student performance, we are including a set of charts and tables that display the district’s state assessment results from 2015 through 2024. This compilation includes both district-wide results and results by student demographic groups. Not included are 2020 test results and 2021 test results for some student populations due to the pandemic.
**Garden Grove Unified School District. (2016). The Garden Grove way. https://www.ggusd.us/assets/files/district/strategic-plan-2016-english.pdf
GGUSD’s strategic plan, which has been in place for nearly 10 years, details each of the district’s three goals for students – ensuring academic skills, personal skills, and lifelong success. The goals serve as a roadmap for the district’s continuous improvement and help district leaders select and organize their priorities. GGUSD district leaders often discuss their work using the language of Goals 1, 2, and 3, so we recommend that meeting participants review this piece to gain familiarity with the district’s vision and priorities.
Garden Grove Unified School District. (2024). The Garden Grove way. https://www.ggusd.us/media/10059/2024-annual-report-new.pdf
GGUSD’s 2024 annual report highlights some of their most notable accomplishments, organized by the district’s three goals. It illustrates how GGUSD compares to their peers in key domains and how the goals are essential to all components of the district’s work. While this reading is not required, it may help meeting participants understand all that is encompassed in each goal.
**This document is a priority reading.