Armona Elementary

Armona Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Armona, California, one of the schools within Armona Union Elementary, with 571 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Armona Union Elementary comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,155 students; Armona Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Armona Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Other groups include 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Armona Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Armona Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Kings County reports that median household income runs about $70,995, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Kings County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students), Armona Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Parkview Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Armona Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Armona Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Armona Elementary has edged up 11%, going from 516 students in 2018 to 571 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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