Cesar Chavez Elementary

Cesar Chavez Elementary is one of the average-sized primary schools in Davis, California, operated by Davis Joint Unified, with 510 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Davis Joint Unified comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,241 students; Cesar Chavez Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cesar Chavez Elementary logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 36% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian.

On the resource side, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Yolo County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cesar Chavez Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.1%; this one delivers 70.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Yolo County shows median household income runs about $91,752, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Yolo County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), of which Cesar Chavez Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Robert E. Willett Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cesar Chavez Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cesar Chavez Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 69.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 626 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 52% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Cesar Chavez Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.