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Enrollment
527
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MERCED CITY ELEMENTARY·NCES 062460003687
Charles Wright Elementary
900 East 20th St., Merced, CA 95340 · (209) 385-6615 · Merced County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL527 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
423 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 87 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 8% smaller than its 6th grade class (87).
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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
34.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.3pp since 2014
Math
21.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.0% | 21.2% | 25.3% | 40.4% |
| Math | 8.9% | 12.6% | 27.3% | 51.2% |
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 | 34.3% | 21.5% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 20.2% |
| 2022-23 | 24.2% | 14.4% |
| 2021-22 | 27.0% | 16.0% |
| 2018-19 | 34.0% | 22.9% |
| 2017-18 | 30.4% | 21.4% |
| 2016-17 | 28.7% | 18.4% |
| 2015-16 | 26.0% | 16.0% |
| 2014-15 | 31.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
25.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Charles Wright Elementary
Charles Wright Elementary's state test result (25.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Wright Elementary this school | 527 | 80.3% | 25.8% |
| Lemoore Elementary Lemoore | 508 | 79.5% | 37.6% |
| Conway Elementary Escondido | 547 | 81.0% | 37.3% |
| Willow Glen Elementary Visalia | 506 | 77.1% | 31.0% |
| Cunningham Elementary Turlock | 597 | 79.4% | 18.4% |
| Parkview Elementary Port Hueneme | 525 | 81.5% | 16.6% |
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 Charles Wright Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Merced County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #3,993 of 5,151 | #42 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #4,161 of 5,172 ▼ 13 | #44 of 54 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #3,525 of 5,172 ▲ 553 | #36 of 54 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.4pp | #1,276 of 5,116 | #19 of 53 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 527 | #2,122 of 5,915 | #28 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.0:1 | #2,210 of 5,352 | #18 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #3,462 of 5,354 | #22 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.3% | #2,169 of 5,625 | #33 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #3,721 of 3,837 | #34 of 35 |
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
527
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
22.0:1
was 24.5:1
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 | 527 | 23.9 | 22.0:1 | 80% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 24 | 23.1:1 | 86% (473) |
| 2022-23 | 563 | 23 | 24.5:1 | 80% (450) |
| 2020-21 | 539 | 22 | 24.5:1 | 83% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 21 | 25.4:1 | 91% (485) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 24 | 22.2:1 | 90% (480) |
| 2010-11 | 522 | N/A | N/A | 86% (451) |
| 2000-01 | 530 | 25 | 21.2:1 | 86% (454) |
| 1990-91 | 670 | 24 | 27.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles Wright Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (534 to 527); teachers up 14% (21 to 23.9).
About Charles Wright Elementary
Charles Wright Elementary is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Merced, California. It offers kindergarten through 6 and has 527 students enrolled.
Federal data list 19 schools in Merced City Elementary, with 11,108 students enrolled.
Hispanic students are 76% of those enrolled at Charles Wright Elementary. The remaining shares are 11% White, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Merced County's population at about 63%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 40%.
Charles Wright Elementary reported 23.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 22.0:1. It is about the same as the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Roughly 80% of students at Charles Wright Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Merced County average a similar 81%.
On BeatsExpectations, Charles Wright Elementary is 6.7 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Merced County show that the median household earns about $65,510 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 15%, and roughly 16% of residents are in poverty. Across Merced County, 117 public schools serve about 59,456 students.
Herbert Hoover Middle is the nearest public school to Charles Wright Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Charles Wright Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 527, close to the 539 recorded in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 24.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 22.0:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Charles Wright Elementary. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Merced County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
290,201
Census ACS
Median income
$65,510
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
59,456 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Merced City Elementary
- Rudolph Rivera ElementaryElementary · 917 students
- Donn B. Chenoweth ElementaryElementary · 722 students
- Luther Burbank ElementaryElementary · 716 students
- Allan Peterson ElementaryElementary · 690 students
- Joe StefaniElementary · 641 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleMiddle · 629 students
Other schools in Merced
- Merced HighHigh · 1,943 students
- Golden Valley HighHigh · 1,917 students
- El Capitan HighHigh · 1,793 students
- Weaver MiddleMiddle · 1,073 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 1,055 students
- Merced County Special EducationCombined · 942 students
Nearby schools
- Herbert Hoover Middle0.5 mi · 629
- Sequoia High0.6 mi · 77
- Independence High (Alternative)0.7 mi · 87
- Yosemite High (Continuation)0.7 mi · 342
- Ada Givens Elementary0.8 mi · 579
- Don Stowell Elementary0.8 mi · 501
Frequently asked questions
About Charles Wright ElementaryHow many students attend Charles Wright Elementary?
Charles Wright Elementary enrolls approximately 527 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Charles Wright Elementary serve?
Charles Wright Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Charles Wright Elementary?
Approximately 22.0:1 students per teacher at Charles Wright Elementary.
How diverse is Charles Wright Elementary?
Charles Wright Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 76% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Charles Wright Elementary?
Charles Wright Elementary is overseen by Merced City Elementary in Merced County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.