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Enrollment
578
Elementary
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADERA UNIFIED·NCES 062334003556
George Washington Elementary
509 E. South St., Madera, CA 93638 · (559) 674-6705 · Madera County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL578 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
566 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 87 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (87).
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · 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
26.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +11.5pp since 2014
Math
18.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.5% | 20.0% | 27.7% | 45.9% |
| Math | 4.3% | 13.6% | 31.3% | 50.8% |
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 | 26.5% | 18.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.5% | 17.4% |
| 2022-23 | 29.6% | 17.3% |
| 2021-22 | 26.3% | 16.0% |
| 2018-19 | 20.9% | 11.7% |
| 2017-18 | 21.5% | 15.1% |
| 2016-17 | 18.0% | 15.3% |
| 2015-16 | 18.0% | 10.0% |
| 2014-15 | 15.0% | 13.0% |
% 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
22.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 George Washington Elementary
George Washington Elementary's state test result (22.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Washington Elementary this school | 578 | 97.9% | 22.6% |
| Ramona Elementary Oxnard | 568 | 97.4% | 13.9% |
| Las Palmitas Elementary Thermal | 570 | 96.5% | 17.8% |
| Middleton Street Elementary Huntington Park | 601 | 99.2% | 36.3% |
| Santa Rita Elementary Salinas | 545 | 97.2% | 10.7% |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy Salinas | 577 | 96.2% | 21.6% |
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 George Washington Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Madera County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #4,326 of 5,151 | #27 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #4,486 of 5,172 ▼ 34 | #26 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #4,334 of 5,172 ▼ 500 | #25 of 30 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.1pp | #2,979 of 5,116 | #20 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 578 | #1,583 of 5,915 | #17 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.0:1 | #926 of 5,352 | #13 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.1% | #5,239 of 5,354 | #34 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.9% | #104 of 5,625 | #2 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #1,066 of 3,837 | #3 of 22 |
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
578
-81 (-12%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
was 22.0:1
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 | 578 | 28.9 | 20.0:1 | 98% (566) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 25 | 23.7:1 | 98% (582) |
| 2022-23 | 607 | 28.4 | 21.4:1 | 99% (600) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 30 | 22.0:1 | 99% (652) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 30 | 25.1:1 | 97% (733) |
| 2015-16 | 780 | 30 | 26.0:1 | 98% (768) |
| 2010-11 | 699 | N/A | N/A | 99% (692) |
| 2000-01 | 893 | 42 | 21.3:1 | 99% (882) |
| 1990-91 | 670 | 27 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for George Washington Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (753 to 578); teachers down 4% (30 to 28.9).
About George Washington Elementary
Students in Madera, California, attend George Washington Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers kindergarten through 6 and reported 578 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in California enroll around 465, and this school is 24% bigger than that mark.
The district, Madera Unified, operates 28 schools serving 19,922 students.
The share of students at George Washington Elementary who are Hispanic is 98%. Among people living in Madera County, the Hispanic share is about 61%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 4, compared with 70 nationally.
George Washington Elementary reports a ratio of 20.0 students per teacher, from 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. Lunch program data show 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Madera County is 81%.
On BeatsExpectations, George Washington Elementary is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
Madera County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $76,627 a year, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. George Washington Elementary shares Madera County with 80 other public schools.
James Monroe Elementary is about 1.0 miles from George Washington Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, George Washington Elementary is 5th among 6 schools close by.
In the federal locale system, George Washington Elementary is coded Suburb: Small, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 12%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 22.0:1 to 20.0:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the George Washington Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Madera County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,940
Census ACS
Median income
$76,627
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
32,251 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madera Unified
- Matilda Torres HighHigh · 2,017 students
- Madera HighHigh · 1,869 students
- Madera South HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMiddle · 948 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 865 students
- Jack G. Desmond MiddleMiddle · 838 students
Other schools in Madera
- Matilda Torres HighHigh · 2,017 students
- Madera HighHigh · 1,869 students
- Madera South HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMiddle · 948 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 865 students
- Jack G. Desmond MiddleMiddle · 838 students
Other George Washington Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 11 states are named George Washington Elementary. George Washington Elementary is the 4th largest of the 22.
- George Washington ElementaryNorco, CA · 861 students
- George Washington ElementaryHanford, CA · 460 students
- George Washington ElementaryBurbank, CA · 440 students
- George Washington ElementaryLodi, CA · 361 students
- George Washington ElementaryDaly City, CA · 206 students
Nearby schools
- James Monroe Elementary1.0 mi · 624
- Sherman Thomas Charter1.0 mi · 233
- Sherman Thomas Charter High1.0 mi · 69
- Sherman Thomas STEM Academy1.0 mi · 75
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle1.0 mi · 865
- Thomas Jefferson Middle1.0 mi · 948
Frequently asked questions
About George Washington ElementaryHow many students attend George Washington Elementary?
George Washington Elementary enrolls approximately 578 students in grades KG-06.
Is George Washington Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
George Washington Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at George Washington Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at George Washington Elementary is approximately 20.0:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at George Washington Elementary?
At George Washington Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is George Washington Elementary in?
George Washington Elementary is part of Madera Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.