Cummings Valley Elementary

Cummings Valley Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in Tehachapi, California, one of the schools within Tehachapi Unified. Current enrollment sits at 560 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 20% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 7 schools in Tehachapi Unified (4,156 students total), Cummings Valley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Cummings Valley Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Cummings Valley Elementary lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Cummings Valley Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at Cummings Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cummings Valley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.9%; this one delivers 47.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kern County) logs that 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%. Cummings Valley Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Nearest neighbor: Golden Hills Elementary, around 4.9 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Cummings Valley Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 674 students in 2018 compared to 560 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 72% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 26.7:1 today.

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