Alisal Community

Alisal Community is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Salinas, California, operated by Alisal Union, with 591 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 465.

Across the 13 schools in Alisal Union (7,303 students total), Alisal Community accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Alisal Community reports that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 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. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Monterey County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Alisal Community tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Monterey County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Monterey County's 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), Alisal Community is one campus in the mix.

Alisal High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alisal Community. On composite proficiency, Alisal Community comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

Alisal Community operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Alisal Community's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 697 (now 591). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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