Cunningham Elementary

Cunningham Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in Turlock, California, overseen by Turlock Unified. Current enrollment sits at 597 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 14 schools in Turlock Unified (13,478 students total), Cunningham Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Cunningham Elementary reports that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 9% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Cunningham Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.0%; Cunningham Elementary posts 18.4%, -14.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Stanislaus County shows median household earnings sit near $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Cunningham Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fusion Charter, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cunningham Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cunningham Elementary has ticked down 17%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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