Garvey School District

Garvey School District (founded in 1891) is a pre-K-8 school district with headquarters located in the city of Rosemead, California. It operates nine pre-K-6 elementary schools, one pre-K-8 elementary school and two intermediate schools (grades 7-8). The district serves more than 6000 students from diverse backgrounds, predominantly Asian and Latin American.

Garvey School District
Address
2730 North Del Mar Avenue Rosemead , California, 91770 United States
District information
Type	Public
Grades	K–8^[1]
NCES District ID	0614940 ^[1]
Students and staff
Students	4,431 (2020–2021)^[1]
Teachers	189.02 (FTE)^[1]
Staff	272.21 (FTE)^[1]
Student–teacher ratio	23.44:1^[1]
Other information
Website	www.garvey.k12.ca.us

In addition to serving most of the southern portions of the city of Rosemead, the Garvey School District serves parts of the cities of Monterey Park and San Gabriel, as well as part of the unincorporated Los Angeles County community of South San Gabriel. Monterey Vista and Hillcrest Elementary schools are located in the city of Monterey Park, while Dewey Avenue Elementary school is located in the city of San Gabriel. All other schools in the district are located in the city of Rosemead.

Students from the Garvey School District feed into the high schools of the Alhambra Unified School District, primarily to San Gabriel High School, but also to Mark Keppel High School.

Enrollment in the Garvey School District has been in decline for several years. As a result, several elementary schools have closed.^{[citation needed]}

History

Circa 1985 the Garvey school district the site chosen for a new Rosemead high school by the Alhambra Union High School District.^[2]

Schools

Pre-K-6 schools

• Arlene Bitley Elementary School, Rosemead^[3]
• Dewey Avenue Elementary School, San Gabriel^[4]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School, Rosemead^[5]
• Hillcrest Elementary School, Monterey Park^[6]
• Monterey Vista Elementary School, Monterey Park^[7]
• Eldridge Rice Elementary School, Rosemead^[8]
• George I. Sanchez Elementary School, Rosemead^[9]
• Willard Elementary School, Rosemead^[10]

Intermediate schools

• Roger W. Temple Intermediate School, Rosemead^[11]
• Richard Garvey Intermediate School, Rosemead^[12]

Former schools

• Dan T. Williams Elementary School, Rosemead. Since the fall of 2006, the district has had an arrangement with the Los Angeles Community College District allowing East Los Angeles College, which has had increasing enrollment resulting in a shortage of classroom space in recent years, to use the Williams School, a 17-room school, as a satellite campus.^[13]
• Margaret Duff Elementary School, Rosemead, closed on June 16, 2008 due to a vote in favor to close on May 15 of that year^[14]
• John Marshall Elementary School, San Gabriel, closed after the 2010-2011 school year due to a vote in favor to close after that year. It would soon become a community park which will start construction on early 2013.[1]^{[permanent dead link]}

References

1. "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Garvey Elementary". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
2. Ward, Mike (1985-09-19). "District Seeks $1 Million More for School Study". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-10-20. - The article refers to the "Alhambra School District". Since Alhambra USD did not form until 2004, by context that would mean the high school district, even though the article assumed that the school district already was unified based on its description.
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14. . Archived from the original on 2006-10-10. Retrieved 2006-12-21.

External links

•  Los Angeles portal
•  Schools portal

• Official website