Arroyo Seco Academy

Located at 1226 Apple Ave., in Greenfield, California, Arroyo Seco Academy is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that hosts 571 students (grades K through 6), part of Greenfield Union Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.

Arroyo Seco Academy is one of 5 schools operated by Greenfield Union Elementary, a district that works with 3,319 students overall.

Demographically, Arroyo Seco Academy reports that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arroyo Seco Academy is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.7%; Arroyo Seco Academy posts 15.1%, -14.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Monterey County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which Arroyo Seco Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Avenue Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arroyo Seco Academy ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Inside the community feed, members of the Arroyo Seco Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.