Edwin Markham Elementary

As a high-enrollment primary school in Vacaville, California, Edwin Markham Elementary teaches 882 students from grades K through 6, operated by Vacaville Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 90% larger than typical.

Vacaville Unified comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 12,690 students; Edwin Markham Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Edwin Markham Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 11% White, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Edwin Markham Elementary records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Solano County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Edwin Markham Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.6%; Edwin Markham Elementary posts 20.5%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Solano County indicate median household income runs about $100,401, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edwin Markham Elementary is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

The closest other public school is Shereene Wilkerson Academy of Excellence, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edwin Markham Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edwin Markham Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.6%.

Edwin Markham Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edwin Markham Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 895 students in 2018 to 882 in 2025.

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