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Enrollment
501
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MERCED CITY ELEMENTARY·NCES 062460007539
Don Stowell Elementary
251 East 11th St., Merced, CA 95340 · (209) 381-2803 · Merced County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
21.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
481 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (73).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
22.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.2pp since 2014
Math
16.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.2% | 17.0% | 24.5% | 53.3% |
| Math | 6.2% | 10.1% | 21.2% | 62.5% |
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 | 22.2% | 16.3% |
| 2023-24 | 19.3% | 12.4% |
| 2022-23 | 15.6% | 14.2% |
| 2021-22 | 15.0% | 11.9% |
| 2018-19 | 22.3% | 20.8% |
| 2017-18 | 23.5% | 14.9% |
| 2016-17 | 18.5% | 11.4% |
| 2015-16 | 18.0% | 11.0% |
| 2014-15 | 15.0% | 11.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Don Stowell Elementary
Don Stowell Elementary's state test result (17.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don Stowell Elementary this school | 501 | 96.0% | 17.7% |
| Graciano Gomez Elementary San Bernardino | 481 | 97.1% | 20.1% |
| Serrano Elementary Moreno Valley | 496 | 94.4% | 22.7% |
| Wadsworth Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 506 | 96.2% | 21.0% |
| Twentieth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 499 | 95.6% | 37.7% |
| Roosevelt Elementary San Bernardino | 512 | 94.9% | 29.3% |
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 Don Stowell Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Merced County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #4,766 of 5,151 | #52 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #4,630 of 5,172 ▲ 252 | #49 of 54 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #4,710 of 5,172 ▲ 82 | #52 of 54 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.8pp | #1,432 of 5,116 | #21 of 53 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #2,423 of 5,915 | #32 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #2,076 of 5,352 | #15 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.5% | #4,250 of 5,354 | #35 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.0% | #319 of 5,625 | #3 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.2% | #1,752 of 3,837 | #12 of 35 |
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
501
-74 (-13%) vs 2020
+21% since 2000-01, when it was 415
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
was 24.0:1
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 | 501 | 22.9 | 21.8:1 | 96% (481) |
| 2023-24 | 527 | 22.1 | 23.9:1 | 96% (508) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 22 | 23.5:1 | 98% (506) |
| 2020-21 | 575 | 24 | 24.0:1 | 87% (500) |
| 2017-18 | 605 | 23.4 | 25.8:1 | 98% (590) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 25 | 22.7:1 | 98% (557) |
| 2010-11 | 522 | N/A | N/A | 98% (512) |
| 2000-01 | 415 | 20 | 20.8:1 | 90% (375) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Don Stowell Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (605 to 501); teachers down 2% (23.4 to 22.9).
About Don Stowell Elementary
Don Stowell Elementary runs as a medium-sized elementary school in Merced, California. The grade span is kindergarten through 6, and enrollment is 501 students.
The district, Merced City Elementary, has 11,108 students enrolled across 19 schools.
At Don Stowell Elementary, Hispanic students make up 87% of the student body. The remaining students are 5% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Merced County, the Hispanic share is about 63%. By the diversity index, Don Stowell Elementary comes in at 23%.
Don Stowell Elementary operates with 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 21.8:1. Elementary schools in California average about 22.3:1, a similar figure. About 96% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That is higher than the 81% average for public schools in Merced County.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Don Stowell Elementary receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Don Stowell Elementary scores 17.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 23.3%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Merced County show that median household income is about $65,510, roughly 15% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 117 public schools in Merced County, with a combined enrollment of about 59,456.
The school nearest to Don Stowell Elementary is Sequoia High, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Don Stowell Elementary places 5th of 5 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Don Stowell Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 13%, from 575 to 501. The ratio was 24.0:1 in 2020-21 and 21.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Merced County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
290,201
Census ACS
Median income
$65,510
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
59,456 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Merced City Elementary
- Rudolph Rivera ElementaryElementary · 917 students
- Donn B. Chenoweth ElementaryElementary · 722 students
- Luther Burbank ElementaryElementary · 716 students
- Allan Peterson ElementaryElementary · 690 students
- Joe StefaniElementary · 641 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleMiddle · 629 students
Other schools in Merced
- Merced HighHigh · 1,943 students
- Golden Valley HighHigh · 1,917 students
- El Capitan HighHigh · 1,793 students
- Weaver MiddleMiddle · 1,073 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 1,055 students
- Merced County Special EducationCombined · 942 students
Nearby schools
- Sequoia High0.6 mi · 77
- Yosemite High (Continuation)0.6 mi · 342
- Independence High (Alternative)0.6 mi · 87
- Charles Wright Elementary0.8 mi · 527
- Merced County Special Education0.8 mi · 942
- Tenaya Middle0.9 mi · 607
Frequently asked questions
About Don Stowell ElementaryHow large is Don Stowell Elementary?
Don Stowell Elementary enrolls approximately 501 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Don Stowell Elementary serve?
Don Stowell Elementary serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Don Stowell Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Don Stowell Elementary is approximately 21.8:1 (23 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Don Stowell Elementary?
Don Stowell Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 87% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Don Stowell Elementary public or private?
Don Stowell Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Merced City Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.