Chatom Elementary

Chatom Elementary is one of the modestly sized primary schools in Turlock, California, operated by Chatom Union, with 391 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Chatom Union comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 557 students; Chatom Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chatom Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

On the resource side, Chatom Elementary reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chatom Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.7%; this one delivers 45.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Chatom Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Roselawn High, roughly 3.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chatom Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 25.4%.

Chatom Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Chatom Elementary's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 406 (now 391). The White share of enrollment declined from 36% to 29% over that span.

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