Arroyo Seco Elementary

Arroyo Seco Elementary, a mid-sized K-5 school in Livermore, California, operated by Livermore Valley Joint Unified, enrolls 584 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Livermore Valley Joint Unified runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 12,945 students. Arroyo Seco Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Arroyo Seco Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 32% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Arroyo Seco Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Arroyo Seco Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 66.2%; Arroyo Seco Elementary posts 49.0%, -17.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Alameda County shows the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Arroyo Seco Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jackson Avenue Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arroyo Seco Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Arroyo Seco Elementary's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 664 (now 584). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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