Beckman Elementary

Beckman Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Lodi, California, run under Lodi Unified, educateing 550 students in grades K through 6.

Beckman Elementary is one of 46 schools operated by Lodi Unified, a district that caters to 27,047 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Beckman Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Asian, 10% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Beckman Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beckman Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at Beckman Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Joaquin County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beckman Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.9%; this one delivers 20.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put median household income runs about $92,179, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Beckman Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tokay High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Beckman Elementary. On composite proficiency, Beckman Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 667 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

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