El Dorado Elementary

Located at 1540 North Lincoln St., in Stockton, California, El Dorado Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that works with 554 students (grades K through 8), run under Stockton Unified.

Across the 54 schools in Stockton Unified (33,590 students total), El Dorado Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, El Dorado Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, El Dorado Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 14.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,179, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which El Dorado Elementary is one.

Stockton Early College Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Dorado Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Dorado Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. El Dorado Elementary's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 554). Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.7:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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