Elmwood Elementary

Elmwood Elementary is one of the medium-sized primary schools in Stockton, California, part of Stockton Unified, with 656 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Stockton Unified comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,590 students; Elmwood Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Elmwood Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 27.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Elmwood Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elmwood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.4%.

In the broader community, census data for San Joaquin County shows 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%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Elmwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Wilhelmina Henry Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elmwood Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 21.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Elmwood Elementary's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 858 (now 656). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 36.7:1 in 2018 to 27.2:1 today.

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