Edna Beaman Elementary

Edna Beaman Elementary is one of the rural-scale elementary schools in Benton, California, run under Eastern Sierra Unified, with 12 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Edna Beaman Elementary sits 97% below that benchmark.

Eastern Sierra Unified comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 348 students; Edna Beaman Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Edna Beaman Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 42% Hispanic, 17% Native American. By comparison, Mono County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mono County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Mono County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,415 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mono County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,446 students), Edna Beaman Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Esmeralda Virtual High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 22.7 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Edna Beaman Elementary's enrollment has fell 48% since 2018, when it stood at 23 (now 12). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 26% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 6.0:1 today.

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