Ada Givens Elementary

Ada Givens Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in Merced, California, run under Merced City Elementary, with 579 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Merced City Elementary, which oversees 19 schools and 11,108 students, Ada Givens Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ada Givens Elementary lists that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 15% White, 6% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ada Givens Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Ada Givens Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ada Givens Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Merced County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,510 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ada Givens Elementary is one of 117 public schools in Merced County (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students).

Herbert Hoover Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ada Givens Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ada Givens Elementary has expanded 3%, going from 564 students in 2018 to 579 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 26% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 in 2025.

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