Eastin Arcola Elementary

As a small primary school in Madera, California, Eastin Arcola Elementary enrolls 225 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Madera Unified. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Madera Unified comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 19,922 students; Eastin Arcola Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Eastin Arcola Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, On paper, Eastin Arcola Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Eastin Arcola Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madera County (around 81%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Eastin Arcola Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Madera County put median household income runs about $76,627, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Madera County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students), of which Eastin Arcola Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ripperdan Community Day, around 3.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Eastin Arcola Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 253 students in 2018 compared to 225 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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