Catherine Everett Elementary

Set in Modesto, California, Catherine Everett Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community, run under Modesto City Elementary. It serves 428 students across grades K through 6.

Within Modesto City Elementary, which oversees 26 schools and 14,444 students, Catherine Everett Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Catherine Everett Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 16% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Catherine Everett Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Stanislaus County) records that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Catherine Everett Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Grace M. Davis High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Catherine Everett Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 23%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 52% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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