Gabilan Elementary

As a mid-tier K-5 school in Soledad, California, Gabilan Elementary instructs 456 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Soledad Unified.

Soledad Unified runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,805 students. Gabilan Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gabilan Elementary records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 62% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monterey County (around 76%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gabilan Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.4%; this one delivers 34.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monterey County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Gabilan Elementary is one of 153 public schools in Monterey County (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students).

San Vicente Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gabilan Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 26.0%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 452 students in 2018 compared to 456 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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