Crescent Elementary

Crescent Elementary, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Bakersfield, California, run under Greenfield Union, caters to 496 students, covering grades K through 5.

Greenfield Union runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,860 students. Crescent Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Crescent Elementary logs that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 5% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Crescent Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Crescent Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Crescent Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crescent Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.6%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Kern County shows median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Crescent Elementary is one.

Del Oro High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crescent Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crescent Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.3%.

Crescent Elementary operates from a low-density location.

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