El Nido Elementary

Set in El Nido, California, El Nido Elementary is a minimally staffed elementary campus, part of El Nido Elementary. It serves 156 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so El Nido Elementary sits 66% below that benchmark.

El Nido Elementary is a school of El Nido Elementary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, El Nido Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest breaks down as 10% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, On paper, El Nido Elementary has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at El Nido Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Merced County (around 81%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Nido Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 29.1%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Merced County shows median household earnings sit near $65,510, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. El Nido Elementary is one of 117 public schools in Merced County (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students).

Merced County Juvenile Court is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.7 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, El Nido Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. El Nido Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 166 (now 156). Class-load math has fell: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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