Endeavour Elementary

Endeavour Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Bakersfield, California, part of Fruitvale Elementary, with 724 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 56% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Endeavour Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Fruitvale Elementary, a district that caters to 3,069 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Endeavour Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 37% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 73% of students at Endeavour Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Endeavour Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.1%; this one delivers 45.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Endeavour Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Centennial High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Endeavour Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Endeavour Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Endeavour Elementary operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 780 students in 2018 compared to 724 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 37% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.