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Alumni: what's one memory from Cunningham Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
597
Elementary
DISTRICT 748 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TURLOCK UNIFIED·NCES 060015811509
Cunningham Elementary
324 West Linwood Ave., Turlock, CA 95380 · (350) 206-2700 · Stanislaus County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL597 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
474 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (92).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Cunningham Elementary→Turlock Junior High
Based on grade levels within Turlock Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
18.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.7pp since 2014
Math
16.7%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.3% | 13.0% | 18.1% | 63.6% |
| Math | 3.8% | 12.9% | 23.2% | 60.1% |
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 | 18.3% | 16.7% |
| 2023-24 | 21.4% | 17.4% |
| 2022-23 | 19.7% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 18.6% | 16.3% |
| 2020-21 | 15.2% | 11.2% |
| 2018-19 | 31.2% | 26.6% |
| 2017-18 | 26.3% | 19.3% |
| 2016-17 | 27.8% | 23.1% |
| 2015-16 | 24.0% | 19.0% |
| 2014-15 | 22.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Cunningham Elementary
Cunningham Elementary's state test result (18.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cunningham Elementary this school | 597 | 79.4% | 18.4% |
| Westside Union Elementary Los Banos | 573 | 80.8% | 38.9% |
| Cedargrove Elementary Covina | 569 | 77.3% | 41.0% |
| Conway Elementary Escondido | 547 | 81.0% | 37.3% |
| Harry S. Truman Elementary La Quinta | 635 | 80.2% | 39.7% |
| Alberta Martone Elementary Modesto | 627 | 81.0% | 34.4% |
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 Cunningham Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Stanislaus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #4,701 of 5,151 | #89 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #4,594 of 5,172 ▼ 141 | #87 of 100 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #4,932 of 5,172 ▼ 314 | #97 of 100 ▼ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #3,284 of 5,116 | #71 of 100 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 597 | #1,426 of 5,915 | #33 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.3:1 | #1,702 of 5,352 | #28 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.9% | #3,710 of 5,354 | #66 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.4% | #2,239 of 5,625 | #49 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #1,813 of 3,837 | #15 of 56 |
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
597
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
-21% since 2010-11, when it was 751
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
was 22.4:1
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 | 597 | 28 | 21.3:1 | 79% (474) |
| 2023-24 | 609 | 29 | 21.0:1 | 80% (490) |
| 2022-23 | 572 | 26 | 22.0:1 | 76% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 581 | 26 | 22.4:1 | 86% (500) |
| 2017-18 | 717 | 30 | 23.9:1 | 91% (649) |
| 2015-16 | 750 | 32 | 23.4:1 | 89% (666) |
| 2010-11 | 751 | N/A | N/A | 84% (630) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cunningham Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (717 to 597); teachers down 7% (30 to 28).
About Cunningham Elementary
Students in Turlock, California, attend Cunningham Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 597 students, from kindergarten through 6. Average enrollment for elementary schools in California is about 465, so this school runs 28% bigger than that.
Turlock Unified oversees Cunningham Elementary and 13 other schools, with 13,478 students in total.
A majority of students at Cunningham Elementary, 80%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 9% White, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Stanislaus County's residents are about 50% Hispanic, 30 points below the school's share. Cunningham Elementary has a diversity index of 35%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 21.3:1, with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, higher than at this school. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 79% of enrollment.
Cunningham Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Cunningham Elementary is among the bottom 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 33.0%. Actual: 18.4%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Stanislaus County, median household income is about $81,468, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Cunningham Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County, which together enroll about 106,477 students.
The school nearest to Cunningham Elementary is Fusion Charter, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Within five miles of Cunningham Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Cunningham Elementary places 6th out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
Locale data from NCES put Cunningham Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000 (Suburb: Small).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 581 to 597. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 22.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.3:1.
If you have questions about science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Cunningham Elementary, you can post them here. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Stanislaus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
553,990
Census ACS
Median income
$81,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
190
106,477 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Turlock Unified
- Turlock HighHigh · 2,479 students
- John H. Pitman HighHigh · 1,986 students
- Turlock Junior HighMiddle · 1,294 students
- Walnut Elementary Education CenterElementary · 900 students
- Osborn Two-Way Immersion AcademyElementary · 831 students
- Julien ElementaryElementary · 826 students
Other schools in Turlock
- Turlock HighHigh · 2,479 students
- John H. Pitman HighHigh · 1,986 students
- Turlock Junior HighMiddle · 1,294 students
- Walnut Elementary Education CenterElementary · 900 students
- Osborn Two-Way Immersion AcademyElementary · 831 students
- Julien ElementaryElementary · 826 students
Other Cunningham Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Cunningham Elementary. Cunningham Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- Cunningham Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 562 students
- Cunningham Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 346 students
- Cunningham ElemCunningham, KS · 109 students
Nearby schools
- Fusion Charter0.1 mi · 142
- Wakefield Elementary0.5 mi · 601
- Osborn Two-Way Immersion Academy1.3 mi · 831
- eCademy Charter at Crane1.5 mi · 114
- Roselawn High1.8 mi · 181
- Turlock High1.9 mi · 2,479
Frequently asked questions
About Cunningham ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cunningham Elementary?
Cunningham Elementary enrolls approximately 597 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Cunningham Elementary serve?
Cunningham Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Cunningham Elementary have?
Cunningham Elementary employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Cunningham Elementary?
Student demographics at Cunningham Elementary are roughly 9% White, 80% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Cunningham Elementary in?
Cunningham Elementary is part of Turlock Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.