Boronda Meadows

Boronda Meadows is a mid-tier elementary school in Salinas, California, one of the schools within Salinas City Elementary. The school teaches 620 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Salinas City Elementary comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,236 students; Boronda Meadows is among them.

On the student-mix side, Boronda Meadows reports that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Boronda Meadows lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Boronda Meadows performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of -12.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monterey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Monterey County's 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), Boronda Meadows is one campus in the mix.

Boronda Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Boronda Meadows comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 620 in 2025.

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