Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary

Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary school in Tracy, California, operated by Tracy Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 555 students spanning grades K through 8.

Within Tracy Joint Unified, which oversees 19 schools and 13,770 students, Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 19% Asian, 17% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wanda Hirsch Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 6%: 526 students in 2018 compared to 555 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 36% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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