Grant Elementary School is a public elementary school located on the south side of Santa Monica. It is one of seven elementary schools in the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. For the school year 2025-26, Grant Elementary School had an enrollment of 548 students in grades TK to five. Approximately 45 percent identified as white, 28 percent as hispanic, nine percent as Asian and six percent as African American.
Grant Elementary School serves families residing in the area bounded roughly by Pico Boulevard to the north, Airport Avenue to the south, Bundy Drive to the east and 17th Street to the west. Most of its students continue on to John Adams Middle School and Santa Monica High School.
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GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Principal: Christian Fuhrer |
After school activities are provide by the City of Santa Monica’s CREST program and the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club.
Programs at Grant Elementary are heavily supported by the school local PTA. Additional funds are provided through the Santa Monica Education Foundation.
Construction was completed on the Grant Elementary School campus in 1936. The school was designed by architects Donald Parkinson and Joe Estep, who later designed Santa Monica City Hall. The school’s original Virginia Avenue campus was one of four Santa Monica schools demolished after suffering severe damage in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.
In 2026, Grant Elementary was ranked 80 out of 5,991 public elementary schools in California by Niche.
SEE ALSO:
Franklin Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School
Lincoln Middle School