Blanche Charles Elementary

Blanche Charles Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Calexico, California, part of Calexico Unified. Current enrollment sits at 419 students spanning grades K through 6.

Calexico Unified runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 8,022 students. Blanche Charles Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Blanche Charles Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Blanche Charles Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Blanche Charles Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.8%; this one delivers 30.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Imperial County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,681, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Imperial County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), Blanche Charles Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Pinnacle Hall Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Blanche Charles Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Blanche Charles Elementary's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 419). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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