Dingle Elementary

Dingle Elementary, a small elementary campus in Woodland, California, one of the schools within Woodland Joint Unified, instructs 338 students, covering grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

Across the 17 schools in Woodland Joint Unified (9,304 students total), Dingle Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dingle Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 10% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Dingle Elementary lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Yolo County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Dingle Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.5%; actual is 14.9%, a gap of -15.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yolo County indicate median household income runs about $91,752, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Dingle Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Yolo County (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students).

The closest other public school is Lee Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dingle Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 361 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 15% to 10%.

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