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Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EMPIRE UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 061269001429
Capistrano Elementary
400 Capistrano Dr., Modesto, CA 95354 · (209) 521-8664 · Stanislaus County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
26.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
421 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 24% larger than its 6th grade class (67).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Capistrano Elementary→Norman N. Glick Middle
Based on grade levels within Empire Union Elementary. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
27.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +1.8pp since 2014
Math
21.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +2.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.9% | 18.9% | 23.2% | 49.0% |
| Math | 5.8% | 15.4% | 31.7% | 47.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.8% | 21.2% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 21.5% |
| 2022-23 | 31.4% | 25.7% |
| 2021-22 | 29.1% | 24.1% |
| 2018-19 | 46.3% | 36.0% |
| 2017-18 | 43.2% | 32.4% |
| 2016-17 | 38.7% | 28.4% |
| 2015-16 | 38.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 26.0% | 19.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Capistrano Elementary
Capistrano Elementary's state test result (24.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capistrano Elementary this school | 469 | 89.8% | 24.9% |
| Fremont Elementary Fresno | 443 | 91.6% | 20.4% |
| Hemmerling Elementary Banning | 468 | 92.9% | 28.1% |
| John Adams Elementary Corona | 539 | 87.9% | 34.2% |
| Stanley Mosk Elementary Winnetka | 490 | 88.0% | 38.0% |
| Victory Boulevard Elementary North Hollywood | 466 | 91.8% | 46.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Capistrano Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Stanislaus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #4,084 of 5,151 | #69 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #4,183 of 5,172 ▼ 167 | #74 of 100 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #4,195 of 5,172 ▼ 355 | #80 of 100 ▼ 19 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.1pp | #1,181 of 5,116 | #18 of 100 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #2,805 of 5,915 | #63 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 26.1:1 | #4,872 of 5,352 | #95 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #3,426 of 5,354 | #62 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.8% | #1,130 of 5,625 | #18 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #3,266 of 3,837 | #43 of 56 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
469
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 623
Student : Teacher
26.1:1
was 22.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 469 | 18 | 26.1:1 | 90% (421) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 19 | 24.6:1 | 90% (423) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 19.2 | 24.6:1 | 88% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 21 | 22.1:1 | 81% (377) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 21 | 23.6:1 | 94% (465) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 21 | 24.9:1 | 91% (478) |
| 2010-11 | 488 | N/A | N/A | 92% (449) |
| 2000-01 | 591 | 31 | 19.1:1 | 81% (481) |
| 1990-91 | 623 | 26 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Capistrano Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (496 to 469); teachers down 14% (21 to 18).
About Capistrano Elementary
Among the schools in Modesto, California, is Capistrano Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. The school has 469 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 6.
Empire Union Elementary (6 schools, 2,794 students) runs Capistrano Elementary.
About 76% of the student body at Capistrano Elementary is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 10% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 50% of Stanislaus County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 40%.
With 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 26.1:1. The average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Capistrano Elementary, 90% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Stanislaus County report 71%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Capistrano Elementary is 2.0 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 24.9% actual, 26.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
In the wider Stanislaus County area, the median household earns about $81,468 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Capistrano Elementary shares Stanislaus County with 189 other public schools.
Bernard L. Hughes Elementary is the nearest public school to Capistrano Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Capistrano Elementary is behind the 37.1% nearby average, ranking 9th of 9.
Under the NCES locale system, Capistrano Elementary is City: Mid-size.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 464 to 469. The number of students per teacher increased from 22.1 to 26.1 over 4 years.
Capistrano Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Stanislaus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
553,990
Census ACS
Median income
$81,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
190
106,477 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Empire Union Elementary
- Norman N. Glick MiddleMiddle · 602 students
- Christine Sipherd ElementaryElementary · 505 students
- Bernard L. Hughes ElementaryElementary · 455 students
- Empire ElementaryElementary · 384 students
- Alice N. Stroud ElementaryElementary · 379 students
Other schools in Modesto
- Joseph A. Gregori HighHigh · 2,346 students
- James C. Enochs HighHigh · 2,304 students
- Modesto HighHigh · 2,292 students
- Thomas Downey HighHigh · 2,192 students
- Grace M. Davis HighHigh · 2,083 students
- Peter Johansen HighHigh · 2,029 students
Other Capistrano Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Capistrano Elementary. Capistrano Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Capistrano Elementary SchoolEL PASO, TX · 415 students
Nearby schools
- Bernard L. Hughes Elementary0.7 mi · 455
- El Vista Elementary0.8 mi · 447
- Lakewood Elementary1.0 mi · 395
- Peter Johansen High1.3 mi · 2,029
- Sonoma Elementary1.4 mi · 536
- La Loma Junior High1.4 mi · 705
Frequently asked questions
About Capistrano ElementaryHow large is Capistrano Elementary?
Capistrano Elementary enrolls approximately 469 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Capistrano Elementary serve?
Capistrano Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Capistrano Elementary?
Approximately 26.1:1 students per teacher at Capistrano Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Capistrano Elementary?
Student demographics at Capistrano Elementary are roughly 10% White, 76% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Capistrano Elementary public or private?
Capistrano Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Empire Union Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.