Annie Pennycook Elementary

Annie Pennycook Elementary is one of the tight-knit elementary campuss in Vallejo, California, one of the schools within Vallejo City Unified, with 364 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Annie Pennycook Elementary sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 20 schools in Vallejo City Unified (9,638 students total), Annie Pennycook Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Annie Pennycook Elementary logs that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Black, 14% Asian, 9% multiracial, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Annie Pennycook Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Solano County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, Annie Pennycook Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.2%; this one comes in at 17.4%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Solano County) logs that median household income runs about $100,401, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Solano County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), Annie Pennycook Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hogan Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Annie Pennycook Elementary. On composite proficiency, Annie Pennycook Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 530 students in 2018 compared to 364 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 31% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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