Alicia Reyes Elementary

Alicia Reyes Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Merced, California, part of Merced City Elementary, caters to 540 students, covering grades K through 6.

Merced City Elementary comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,108 students; Alicia Reyes Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Alicia Reyes Elementary records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Merced County (around 81%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Alicia Reyes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Merced County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,510 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Merced County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), of which Alicia Reyes Elementary is one.

Tenaya Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alicia Reyes Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alicia Reyes Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 21.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Alicia Reyes Elementary's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 699 (now 540). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 88% to 92%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

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