El Gabilan Elementary

Set in Salinas, California, El Gabilan Elementary is an average-sized elementary school, one of the schools within Salinas City Elementary. It serves 548 students across grades K through 6.

Salinas City Elementary comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,236 students; El Gabilan Elementary is among them.

On demographics, El Gabilan Elementary records that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 4% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), El Gabilan Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 19.1%, a residual of -13.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Monterey County put the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which El Gabilan Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Natividad Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, El Gabilan Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

El Gabilan Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 26%: 736 students in 2018 compared to 548 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 91% over that span.

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