Berkshire Elementary

Berkshire Elementary, a roomy primary school in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Panama-Buena Vista Union, hosts 932 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 100% above the state mean of about 465.

Panama-Buena Vista Union comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 19,366 students; Berkshire Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Berkshire Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder looks like 14% Asian, 7% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Berkshire Elementary records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Berkshire Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.8%, the actual is 27.2%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Berkshire Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Stonecreek Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berkshire Elementary. On composite proficiency, Berkshire Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Berkshire Elementary's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 990 (now 932). Over the same period, the White share declined from 14% to 5%. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 in 2025.

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