Ann Soldo Elementary

As a close-knit elementary-level community in Watsonville, California, Ann Soldo Elementary teaches 377 students from grades K through 5, run under Pajaro Valley Unified.

Within Pajaro Valley Unified, which oversees 33 schools and 16,482 students, Ann Soldo Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ann Soldo Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder looks like 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Santa Cruz County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ann Soldo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.2%, the actual is 15.4%, a residual of -8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Santa Cruz County) reports that median household income runs about $111,093, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Santa Cruz County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,316 students), of which Ann Soldo Elementary is one.

T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ann Soldo Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 17.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ann Soldo Elementary has edged down 34%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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