General Shafter Elementary

Set in Bakersfield, California, General Shafter Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary school, overseen by General Shafter Elementary. It enrolls 169 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

General Shafter Elementary sits inside General Shafter Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, General Shafter Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 27% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), General Shafter Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.6%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of +12.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kern County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. General Shafter Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Dolores S. Whitley TK-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around General Shafter Elementary. On composite proficiency, General Shafter Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

General Shafter Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 15%: 147 students in 2018 compared to 169 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 92% to 72%.

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