Dos Palos Elementary

Set in Dos Palos, California, Dos Palos Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, operated by Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified. It hosts 579 students across grades K through 2. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 2,254 students, Dos Palos Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Dos Palos Elementary records that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 10% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Dos Palos Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Merced County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,510, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Merced County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), of which Dos Palos Elementary is one.

Bernhard Marks Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Dos Palos Elementary.

Dos Palos Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Dos Palos Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 581 (now 579).

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