Dana Gray Elementary

Dana Gray Elementary is one of the small K-5 schools in Fort Bragg, California, run under Fort Bragg Unified, with 342 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 465.

Fort Bragg Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,669 students. Dana Gray Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Dana Gray Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 37% White, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Mendocino County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dana Gray Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mendocino County shows median household earnings sit near $68,092, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Mendocino County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,738 students), of which Dana Gray Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Fort Bragg High, roughly 0.1 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dana Gray Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Dana Gray Elementary's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 381 (now 342). Over the same period, the White share fell from 47% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.