Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 168 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALLICO-CRESSEY ELEMENTARY·NCES 060375000344
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter
11818 Gregg St., Ballico, CA 95303 · (209) 394-9400 · Merced County
GRADES 01–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 34% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
136 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 47 | 16% |
This year's 1st grade class (41) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (47).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Ballico-Cressey Elementary. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
46.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -1.9pp since 2014
Math
36.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 16.6% | 29.5% | 26.3% | 27.6% |
| Math | 18.1% | 18.5% | 24.1% | 39.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.1% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 29.2% |
| 2022-23 | 40.7% | 30.8% |
| 2021-22 | 44.4% | 29.1% |
| 2020-21 | 38.5% | 20.7% |
| 2018-19 | 44.2% | 28.5% |
| 2017-18 | 49.0% | 26.0% |
| 2016-17 | 45.7% | 36.4% |
| 2015-16 | 44.0% | 37.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 31.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ballico-Cressey Community Charter
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter's state test result (39.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballico-Cressey Community Charter this school | 293 | 46.4% | 39.5% |
| Southside Elementary Hollister | 267 | 45.3% | 45.2% |
| Gault Elementary Santa Cruz | 314 | 48.1% | 41.2% |
| Sassarini Elementary Sonoma | 281 | 45.2% | 28.6% |
| Dual Language Immersion North County Vista | 276 | 44.9% | N/A |
| Jamul Elementary Jamul | 386 | 45.9% | 33.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ballico-Cressey Community Charter ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Merced County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #2,534 of 5,151 | #13 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #2,587 of 5,172 ▲ 579 | #11 of 54 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #2,361 of 5,172 ▲ 275 | #11 of 54 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.6pp | #1,773 of 5,116 | #26 of 53 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #4,818 of 5,915 | #51 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #78 of 5,352 | #2 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.5% | #3,028 of 5,354 | #14 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.4% | #4,065 of 5,625 | #56 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.3% | #434 of 1,139 | #3 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
293
-11 (-4%) vs 2020
+26% since 1990-91, when it was 232
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 19.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 293 | 17.8 | 16.5:1 | 46% (136) |
| 2023-24 | 307 | 17.8 | 17.2:1 | 46% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 321 | 16.6 | 19.3:1 | 44% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 304 | 16 | 19.0:1 | 63% (192) |
| 2017-18 | 261 | 13.1 | 19.9:1 | 64% (166) |
| 2015-16 | 260 | 12 | 21.7:1 | 71% (185) |
| 2010-11 | 153 | N/A | N/A | 75% (114) |
| 2000-01 | 158 | 5 | 31.6:1 | 65% (103) |
| 1990-91 | 232 | 7 | 33.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ballico-Cressey Community Charter.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (261 to 293); teachers up 36% (13.1 to 17.8).
About Ballico-Cressey Community Charter
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter is a small elementary school serving families in Ballico, California. The school counted 293 students in 2024-25, covering grades 1 through 8. That puts enrollment 37% below the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter is one of the 2 schools that make up Ballico-Cressey Elementary (336 students in total).
The share of Hispanic students at Ballico-Cressey Community Charter is 67%, a majority. It is also 29% White. Census estimates put Merced County at about 63% Hispanic, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 47%.
Teacher count: 17.8 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.5:1. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. Roughly 46% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 35 points below the 81% average for public schools in Merced County.
Among California public elementary schools, Ballico-Cressey Community Charter outscored 34%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Ballico-Cressey Community Charter is 12.9 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
The school's county is Merced County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $65,510 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 15% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. Public schools in Merced County number 117, with about 59,456 students.
Cressey Elementary is about 2.9 miles from Ballico-Cressey Community Charter, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: 5. Ballico-Cressey Community Charter comes in 2nd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter falls in the Rural: Distant locale category, used for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area. Ballico-Cressey Community Charter operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 4% decline, from 304 to 293. The ratio of students to teachers went from 19.0:1 to 16.5:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the Ballico-Cressey Community Charter community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Merced County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
290,201
Census ACS
Median income
$65,510
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
59,456 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ballico-Cressey Elementary
- Cressey ElementaryElementary · 43 students
Nearby schools
- Cressey Elementary2.9 mi · 43
- El Capitan Elementary4.2 mi · 289
- Yamato Colony Elementary4.4 mi · 627
- Schendel Elementary4.7 mi · 458
- Floyd A. Schelby4.8 mi · 89
- Selma Herndon Elementary5.1 mi · 611
Frequently asked questions
About Ballico-Cressey Community CharterHow many students attend Ballico-Cressey Community Charter?
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter enrolls approximately 293 students in grades 01-08.
What age range does Ballico-Cressey Community Charter serve?
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter serves students from grade 01 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ballico-Cressey Community Charter?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ballico-Cressey Community Charter is approximately 16.5:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ballico-Cressey Community Charter?
At Ballico-Cressey Community Charter, the student body is approximately 29% White, 67% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Ballico-Cressey Community Charter in?
Ballico-Cressey Community Charter is part of Ballico-Cressey Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.