Central Elementary

Central Elementary is a primary school of mid-sized scale in Tracy, California, run under Tracy Joint Unified, works with 491 students in grades K through 5.

Tracy Joint Unified comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 13,770 students; Central Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Central Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Asian, 7% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Central Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Central Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household income runs about $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Central Elementary is one.

Millennium Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central Elementary at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 7%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025.

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