Akers Elementary

Set in N.A.S. Lemoore, California, Akers Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school, overseen by Central Union Elementary. It hosts 592 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Akers Elementary sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Central Union Elementary comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,508 students; Akers Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Akers Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 27% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 11% Black, 7% Asian. Compared to Kings County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Akers Elementary reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Akers Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.7%, the actual is 54.2%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,995 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Kings County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students), Akers Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: R. J. Neutra, around 0.5 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Akers Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Akers Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Akers Elementary's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 710 (now 592). White enrollment moved from 47% to 38% across the same window.

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