Castle Rock Elementary

Set in Woodlake, California, Castle Rock Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Woodlake Unified. It hosts 418 students across grades 3 through 5.

Across the 6 schools in Woodlake Unified (2,081 students total), Castle Rock Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Castle Rock Elementary lists that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Castle Rock Elementary lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 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, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Castle Rock Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 30.8%, a residual of +5.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tulare County shows median household income runs about $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Castle Rock Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Woodlake Valley Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Castle Rock Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Castle Rock Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Castle Rock Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.