Calistoga Elementary

Located at 1327 Berry St., in Calistoga, California, Calistoga Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school that enrolls 405 students (grades K through 6), part of Calistoga Joint Unified.

Calistoga Joint Unified comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 767 students; Calistoga Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Calistoga Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 8% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at Calistoga Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Napa County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Calistoga Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.6%; this one delivers 36.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Napa County indicate median household income runs about $111,471, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Calistoga Elementary is one of 43 public schools in Napa County (combined enrollment of about 18,557 students).

Nearest neighbor: Calistoga Junior/Senior High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Calistoga Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Calistoga Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.8%.

Calistoga Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 483 students in 2018 compared to 405 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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