Arthur S. Dudley Elementary

Arthur S. Dudley Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Antelope, California, one of the schools within Center Joint Unified. The school instructs 521 students in grades K through 6.

Arthur S. Dudley Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Center Joint Unified, a district that serves 4,593 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arthur S. Dudley Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 28% Hispanic, 22% Black, 18% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 45% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Arthur S. Dudley Elementary shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 72% of students at Arthur S. Dudley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Arthur S. Dudley Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.9%; actual is 19.7%, a gap of -17.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) reports that median household income runs about $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Arthur S. Dudley Elementary is one.

Oak Hill Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arthur S. Dudley Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arthur S. Dudley Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Arthur S. Dudley Elementary's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 521). Over the same period, the White share fell from 45% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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