Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOODLAND JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 064308007002
Gibson Elementary
312 Gibson Rd., Woodland, CA 95695 · (530) 662-3944 · Yolo County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 17% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
244 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 15% larger than its 6th grade class (52).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
33.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.1pp since 2014
Math
21.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 3 points 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 | 9.3% | 23.8% | 26.7% | 40.1% |
| Math | 6.9% | 14.9% | 27.6% | 50.6% |
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 | 33.1% | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 20.0% |
| 2022-23 | 27.5% | 22.9% |
| 2021-22 | 30.4% | 22.7% |
| 2018-19 | 42.1% | 23.9% |
| 2017-18 | 29.8% | 19.7% |
| 2016-17 | 29.3% | 18.9% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 19.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
27.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Gibson Elementary
Gibson Elementary's state test result (27.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gibson Elementary this school | 344 | 70.9% | 27.0% |
| First Street Elementary Lincoln | 381 | 69.8% | 50.6% |
| Kit Carson Elementary Hanford | 345 | 67.8% | 24.5% |
| Elmhurst Elementary Ventura | 378 | 71.7% | 33.0% |
| Monroe Elementary Santa Barbara | 315 | 69.2% | 38.9% |
| Charleston Elementary Los Banos | 374 | 73.5% | 40.6% |
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 Gibson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Yolo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #3,853 of 5,151 | #20 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #4,125 of 5,172 ▲ 40 | #20 of 29 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #3,652 of 5,172 ▼ 233 | #19 of 29 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.9pp | #3,062 of 5,116 | #9 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #4,345 of 5,915 | #29 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #542 of 5,352 | #5 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #2,152 of 5,354 | #20 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.9% | #2,897 of 5,625 | #13 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.4% | #102 of 3,837 | #2 of 23 |
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.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
344
-253 (-42%) vs 2017
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 593
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 23.0:1
% White
24%
was 28%
% Hispanic
60%
was 62%
% Black
2%
was 2%
% Asian
3%
was 4%
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 | 344 | 18.1 | 19.0:1 | 71% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 369 | 17.4 | 21.2:1 | 72% (264) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 17.9 | 19.9:1 | 71% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 597 | 26 | 23.0:1 | 64% (383) |
| 2015-16 | 594 | 26 | 22.9:1 | 67% (398) |
| 2010-11 | 668 | N/A | N/A | 56% (377) |
| 2000-01 | 614 | 31 | 19.8:1 | 28% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 593 | 26 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gibson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 42% (597 to 344); teachers down 30% (26 to 18.1).
About Gibson Elementary
Gibson Elementary, located in Woodland, California, is a small elementary school. The school counted 344 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 6. That is 26% below the average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Woodland Joint Unified enrolls 9,304 students in 17 schools, including Gibson Elementary.
More than half of enrollment at Gibson Elementary is Hispanic: 60%. Next come 24% White, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. The county population is about 33% Hispanic. The diversity index for Gibson Elementary is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 19.0:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 3.3 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 71% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Yolo County report 59%.
Gibson Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 17% of California public elementary schools.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Gibson Elementary's results are 10.9 points below predicted: 27.0% against 38.0%.
Census data for Yolo County show median household income comes to about $91,752, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 67 public schools in the county, enrolling about 29,820, Gibson Elementary among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Douglass Middle, is about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 29.2%; Gibson Elementary's is 27.0%, ranking 6th of 9.
Gibson Elementary has an NCES locale of Suburb: Small.
In 2017-18, federal data counted 597 students at Gibson Elementary; in 2024-25, 344. The grades served may not have been the same in both years. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (19.0:1) than in 2017-18 (23.0:1).
Gibson Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Yolo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
220,564
Census ACS
Median income
$91,752
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
67
29,820 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Woodland Joint Unified
- Pioneer HighHigh · 1,582 students
- Woodland Senior HighHigh · 1,155 students
- Ramon S. Tafoya ElementaryElementary · 772 students
- Douglass MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Woodland Prairie ElementaryElementary · 713 students
- Lee MiddleMiddle · 575 students
Other schools in Woodland
- Pioneer HighHigh · 1,582 students
- Woodland Senior HighHigh · 1,155 students
- Ramon S. Tafoya ElementaryElementary · 772 students
- Douglass MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Woodland Prairie ElementaryElementary · 713 students
- Lee MiddleMiddle · 575 students
Other Gibson Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Gibson Elementary. Gibson Elementary is the 5th largest of the 6.
- Gibson ElementaryFresno, CA · 358 students
- Gibson ElementaryWinston-Salem, NC · 589 students
- Gibson Elementary SchoolCORPUS CHRISTI, TX · 421 students
- GIBSON ELEM.ST LOUIS, MO · 387 students
- Gibson Elementary SchoolGibson, LA · 155 students
Nearby schools
- Douglass Middle0.4 mi · 768
- Dingle Elementary0.8 mi · 338
- Lee Middle1.0 mi · 575
- Zamora Elementary1.0 mi · 409
- T. L. Whitehead Elementary1.1 mi · 331
- Woodland Prairie Elementary1.3 mi · 713
Frequently asked questions
About Gibson ElementaryHow many students attend Gibson Elementary?
Gibson Elementary enrolls approximately 344 students in grades KG-06.
Is Gibson Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gibson Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Gibson Elementary have?
Gibson Elementary employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Gibson Elementary?
Student demographics at Gibson Elementary are roughly 24% White, 60% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Gibson Elementary in?
Gibson Elementary is part of Woodland Joint Unified.
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