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What's something Freedom Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
713
Elementary
DISTRICT 511 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYLVAN UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 063867010695
Freedom Elementary
2101 Fine Ave., Modesto, CA 95355 · (209) 552-3400 · Stanislaus County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL713 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
358 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 134 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 119 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
48.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.7pp since 2014
Math
42.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 20.2% | 28.4% | 23.5% | 27.9% |
| Math | 15.1% | 27.0% | 29.9% | 27.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.7% | 42.1% |
| 2023-24 | 47.5% | 39.5% |
| 2022-23 | 46.3% | 37.6% |
| 2021-22 | 47.8% | 41.6% |
| 2018-19 | 61.6% | 51.7% |
| 2017-18 | 57.9% | 49.0% |
| 2016-17 | 54.8% | 43.1% |
| 2015-16 | 51.0% | 39.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 38.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Freedom Elementary
Freedom Elementary's state test result (44.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Elementary this school | 713 | 50.2% | 44.5% |
| Janet L. Young Elementary Fresno | 647 | 46.7% | 52.8% |
| Mary Casey Black Elementary Brentwood | 680 | 47.1% | 39.8% |
| Freedom Elementary Clovis | 691 | 44.9% | 55.5% |
| Gettysburg Elementary Clovis | 626 | 53.0% | 58.6% |
| Susan B. Anthony Elementary Corona | 822 | 54.6% | 68.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Freedom Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Stanislaus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #2,108 of 5,151 | #19 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #2,136 of 5,172 ▲ 95 | #21 of 100 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #2,145 of 5,172 ▼ 53 | #21 of 100 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.7pp | #3,143 of 5,116 | #65 of 100 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 713 | #695 of 5,915 | #16 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.0:1 | #4,439 of 5,352 | #89 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.5% | #355 of 5,354 | #1 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.2% | #3,902 of 5,625 | #88 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.5% | #625 of 1,139 | #16 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
713
+67 (+10%) vs 2020
+1% since 2010-11, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
was 23.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 713 | 28.5 | 25.0:1 | 50% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 647 | 27 | 24.0:1 | 40% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 661 | 28.6 | 23.1:1 | 44% (294) |
| 2020-21 | 646 | 28 | 23.1:1 | 35% (226) |
| 2017-18 | 663 | 26.5 | 25.0:1 | 36% (236) |
| 2015-16 | 689 | 25 | 27.6:1 | 34% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 703 | N/A | N/A | 35% (244) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Freedom Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (663 to 713); teachers up 8% (26.5 to 28.5).
About Freedom Elementary
This page covers Freedom Elementary, a large elementary school in Modesto, California. It had 713 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 53% bigger than average.
Freedom Elementary is one school in Sylvan Union Elementary, a system of 13 schools with 7,974 students.
Of every 100 students at Freedom Elementary, about 41 are Hispanic, the largest group. The remaining students are 24% White, 20% Asian, 11% multiracial, and 3% Pacific Islander. Census figures show Stanislaus County is about 50% Hispanic. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Freedom Elementary are from different groups.
There are 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 25.0:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 2.7 students per teacher. On the income side, 50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 21 points below the 71% average for public schools in Stanislaus County.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Freedom Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 44.5% actual against 50.1% predicted.
The school's county is Stanislaus County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 190 public schools in the county, enrolling about 106,477, Freedom Elementary among them.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Daniel J. Savage Middle, is the closest to Freedom Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 44.5% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
Freedom Elementary falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 10%, from 646 to 713. The school's ratio increased from 23.1:1 to 25.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
People who know Freedom Elementary can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Stanislaus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
553,990
Census ACS
Median income
$81,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
190
106,477 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sylvan Union Elementary
- Elizabeth Ustach MiddleMiddle · 1,016 students
- Somerset MiddleMiddle · 947 students
- Daniel J. Savage MiddleMiddle · 906 students
- Crossroads ElementaryElementary · 752 students
- Orchard ElementaryElementary · 579 students
- Mary Ann Sanders ElementaryElementary · 558 students
Other schools in Modesto
- Joseph A. Gregori HighHigh · 2,346 students
- James C. Enochs HighHigh · 2,304 students
- Modesto HighHigh · 2,292 students
- Thomas Downey HighHigh · 2,192 students
- Grace M. Davis HighHigh · 2,083 students
- Peter Johansen HighHigh · 2,029 students
Other Freedom Elementary schools
25 other US public schools in 15 states are named Freedom Elementary. Freedom Elementary is the 5th largest of the 26.
- Freedom ElementaryClovis, CA · 691 students
- Freedom ElementaryFarmersville, CA · 528 students
- Freedom ElementaryFreedom, CA · 479 students
- Freedom ElementaryLemoore, CA · 434 students
- Freedom Elementary SchoolLawton, OK · 1,251 students
Nearby schools
- Daniel J. Savage Middle0.2 mi · 906
- Mary Ann Sanders Elementary0.6 mi · 558
- Christine Sipherd Elementary0.8 mi · 505
- Elizabeth Ustach Middle1.3 mi · 1,016
- James C. Enochs High1.3 mi · 2,304
- Lakewood Elementary1.3 mi · 395
Frequently asked questions
About Freedom ElementaryHow large is Freedom Elementary?
Freedom Elementary enrolls approximately 713 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Freedom Elementary serve?
Freedom Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Freedom Elementary have?
Freedom Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.0:1.
How diverse is Freedom Elementary?
Freedom Elementary reports a student body of 24% White, 41% Hispanic, 2% Black, 20% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Freedom Elementary public or private?
Freedom Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sylvan Union Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.