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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Denair Elementary Charter Academy this year?
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Enrollment
554
Elementary
DISTRICT 325 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENAIR UNIFIED·NCES 061104013930
Denair Elementary Charter Academy
3773 Madera Ave., Denair, CA 95316 · (209) 632-8887 · Stanislaus County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
18.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
359 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 | 122 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 36% larger than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Based on grade levels within Denair Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
27.2%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.8pp since 2015
Math
19.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -3.5pp since 2015
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2015, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 7.7% | 19.5% | 31.0% | 41.8% |
| Math | 5.4% | 14.2% | 29.5% | 51.0% |
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 | 27.2% | 19.5% |
| 2023-24 | 27.7% | 19.0% |
| 2022-23 | 26.4% | 16.7% |
| 2021-22 | 29.8% | 16.7% |
| 2020-21 | 23.3% | 10.2% |
| 2018-19 | 25.2% | 21.3% |
| 2017-18 | 25.6% | 18.8% |
| 2016-17 | 25.1% | 16.3% |
| 2015-16 | 28.0% | 23.0% |
% 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
23.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% 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 Denair Elementary Charter Academy
Denair Elementary Charter Academy's state test result (23.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denair Elementary Charter Academy this school | 554 | 64.8% | 23.4% |
| Lange (Dorothea) Elementary Nipomo | 577 | 67.2% | 38.6% |
| Canalino Elementary Carpinteria | 471 | 62.4% | 46.9% |
| South Oceanside Elementary Oceanside | 487 | 65.7% | 36.4% |
| Hughson Elementary Hughson | 596 | 60.2% | 43.9% |
| Northlake Hills Elementary Castaic | 556 | 59.2% | 53.8% |
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 Denair Elementary Charter Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Stanislaus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #4,259 of 5,151 | #77 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #4,342 of 5,172 ▼ 62 | #82 of 100 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.2% | #4,252 of 5,172 ▼ 217 | #81 of 100 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #3,290 of 5,116 | #72 of 100 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #1,815 of 5,915 | #43 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #421 of 5,352 | #5 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #2,601 of 5,354 | #45 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.8% | #3,246 of 5,625 | #76 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.5% | #3,799 of 3,837 | #55 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
554
-10 (-2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 554 | 29.7 | 18.6:1 | 65% (359) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 30 | 18.8:1 | 68% (386) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 30.7 | 19.5:1 | 52% (308) |
| 2020-21 | 564 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 58% (327) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 19 | 29.3:1 | 63% (351) |
| 2015-16 | 494 | 21 | 23.5:1 | 64% (316) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Denair Elementary Charter Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (557 to 554); teachers up 56% (19 to 29.7).
About Denair Elementary Charter Academy
Denair Elementary Charter Academy is an elementary school in Denair, California, according to federal school records. Total enrollment is 554 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5.
Denair Unified enrolls 1,301 students in 4 schools, including Denair Elementary Charter Academy.
Of every 100 students at Denair Elementary Charter Academy, about 60 are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 34% White and 5% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 50%. The diversity index for Denair Elementary Charter Academy is 52%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 18.6:1 is based on 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. In all, 65% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Denair Elementary Charter Academy earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 8% of California public elementary schools.
Denair Elementary Charter Academy is 18.2 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in California.
The school's county is Stanislaus County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $81,468 a year, roughly 20% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Denair Elementary Charter Academy shares Stanislaus County with 189 other public schools.
Denair Elementary Charter Academy's closest public school neighbor is Denair Charter Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 27.7% on proficiency, and Denair Elementary Charter Academy is below that at 23.4%.
NCES assigns Denair Elementary Charter Academy the locale Suburb: Small, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
The school's size has been steady, with 564 students in 2020-21 and 554 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.1:1 to 18.6:1 over the same years.
Denair Elementary Charter Academy has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Denair Unified
- Denair HighHigh · 306 students
- Denair MiddleMiddle · 298 students
- Denair Charter AcademyCombined · 143 students
- Denair ElementaryElementary
Other schools in Denair
- Denair HighHigh · 306 students
- Denair MiddleMiddle · 298 students
- Denair Charter AcademyCombined · 143 students
- Gratton CharterElementary · 111 students
- Gratton ElementaryElementary · 24 students
- Denair ElementaryElementary
Nearby schools
- Denair Charter Academy0.1 mi · 143
- Denair Middle0.2 mi · 298
- Denair High0.3 mi · 306
- Dennis G. Earl Elementary2.2 mi · 817
- Julien Elementary2.4 mi · 826
- Marvin A. Dutcher Middle2.4 mi · 810
Frequently asked questions
About Denair Elementary Charter AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Denair Elementary Charter Academy?
Denair Elementary Charter Academy enrolls approximately 554 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Denair Elementary Charter Academy serve?
Denair Elementary Charter Academy serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Denair Elementary Charter Academy?
Approximately 18.6:1 students per teacher at Denair Elementary Charter Academy.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Denair Elementary Charter Academy?
At Denair Elementary Charter Academy, the student body is approximately 34% White, 60% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Two or more.
What district is Denair Elementary Charter Academy in?
Denair Elementary Charter Academy is part of Denair Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.