Gibson Elementary

Located at 312 Gibson Rd., in Woodland, California, Gibson Elementary is a modestly sized elementary campus that teaches 344 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Woodland Joint Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Gibson Elementary sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 17 schools in Woodland Joint Unified (9,304 students total), Gibson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Gibson Elementary records that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Gibson Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Yolo County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Gibson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Yolo County) records that the typical household earns roughly $91,752 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Yolo County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), Gibson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Douglass Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gibson Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.6%.

Gibson Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gibson Elementary has contracted 42%, going from 597 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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