Dan Mini Elementary

Dan Mini Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Vallejo, California, part of Vallejo City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades K through 5.

Vallejo City Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 9,638 students. Dan Mini Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dan Mini Elementary records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 14% Asian, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dan Mini Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Solano County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dan Mini Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Solano County reports that median household income runs about $100,401, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Solano County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), of which Dan Mini Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elite Public, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dan Mini Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dan Mini Elementary at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 27.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 545 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 54% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

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