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How has Hall District Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 434 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 062949004543
Hall District Elementary
300 Sill Rd., Watsonville, CA 95076 · (831) 728-6371 · Monterey County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of California public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
21.7:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
442 students
DISTRICT 81% · 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 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Hall District Elementary→Aptos Junior High
Based on grade levels within Pajaro Valley Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
11.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.9pp since 2014
Math
7.2%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 2.5% | 8.5% | 20.4% | 68.5% |
| Math | 3.0% | 4.2% | 21.2% | 71.6% |
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 | 11.1% | 7.2% |
| 2023-24 | 10.8% | 4.3% |
| 2022-23 | 12.7% | 6.5% |
| 2021-22 | 18.5% | 6.7% |
| 2018-19 | 25.4% | 17.2% |
| 2017-18 | 23.6% | 14.7% |
| 2016-17 | 18.8% | 14.0% |
| 2015-16 | 16.0% | 11.0% |
| 2014-15 | 15.0% | 8.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Hall District Elementary
Hall District Elementary's state test result (8.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall District Elementary this school | 470 | 94.0% | 8.2% |
| Tipton Elementary Tipton | 485 | 94.6% | 32.8% |
| Wilson Elementary Sanger | 448 | 94.2% | 18.8% |
| Roseland Elementary Santa Rosa | 471 | 94.3% | 32.1% |
| Evergreen Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 492 | 95.3% | 30.3% |
| Terra Bella Elementary Terra Bella | 455 | 93.4% | 33.4% |
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 Hall District Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Monterey County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.2% | #5,124 of 5,151 | #70 of 70 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.2% | #5,127 of 5,172 ▲ 34 | #69 of 70 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.1% | #5,128 of 5,172 ▼ 5 | #68 of 70 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #845 of 5,116 | #15 of 70 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #2,801 of 5,915 | #48 of 81 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.7:1 | #1,989 of 5,352 | #22 of 70 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.2% | #5,044 of 5,354 | #46 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.0% | #572 of 5,625 | #9 of 74 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.6% | #1,958 of 3,837 | #27 of 55 |
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
470
-61 (-11%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 775
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 470 | 21.6 | 21.7:1 | 94% (442) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 23.5 | 22.4:1 | 93% (491) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 21 | 22.5:1 | 96% (453) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 26 | 20.4:1 | 92% (490) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 22 | 25.3:1 | 87% (484) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 25 | 23.8:1 | 92% (545) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | N/A | N/A | 95% (508) |
| 2000-01 | 684 | 35 | 19.5:1 | 76% (522) |
| 1990-91 | 775 | 30 | 25.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hall District Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (557 to 470); teachers down 2% (22 to 21.6).
About Hall District Elementary
Hall District Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Watsonville, California. The school enrolls 470 students in kindergarten through 6.
Across its 33 schools, Pajaro Valley Unified enrolls 16,482 students. Hall District Elementary is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Hall District Elementary, about 96 are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 4% White. For comparison, the population of Monterey County is roughly 62% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 8, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 21.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.7:1. The 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is close to this figure. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 94% of the student body. Among public schools in Monterey County, the average eligibility rate is 76%.
Hall District Elementary earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of California public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Hall District Elementary posts 8.2% against a 24.4% prediction, a bottom-10% result in California.
Monterey County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $97,230, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 153 public schools in the county, enrolling about 73,845, Hall District Elementary among them.
About 2.2 miles separate Hall District Elementary from the closest public school, Ohlone Elementary. The five-mile area around Hall District Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Hall District Elementary at 6th of 6.
NCES assigns Hall District Elementary the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 11%, from 531 to 470. The number of students per teacher increased from 20.4 to 21.7 over 4 years.
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Monterey County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
437,613
Census ACS
Median income
$97,230
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
153
73,845 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pajaro Valley Unified
- Watsonville HighHigh · 2,215 students
- Pajaro Valley HighHigh · 1,293 students
- Aptos HighHigh · 1,274 students
- Alianza CharterElementary · 626 students
- Rolling Hills MiddleMiddle · 588 students
- Aptos Junior HighMiddle · 587 students
Other schools in Watsonville
- Watsonville HighHigh · 2,215 students
- Pajaro Valley HighHigh · 1,293 students
- Alianza CharterElementary · 626 students
- Rolling Hills MiddleMiddle · 588 students
- Cesar E. Chavez MiddleMiddle · 548 students
- Bradley ElementaryElementary · 520 students
Nearby schools
- Ohlone Elementary2.2 mi · 391
- Pajaro Middle2.8 mi · 398
- Ceiba College Preparatory Academy3.4 mi · 501
- Linscott Charter3.5 mi · 258
- Watsonville Prep3.7 mi · 488
- Watsonville High3.7 mi · 2,215
Frequently asked questions
About Hall District ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hall District Elementary?
Hall District Elementary enrolls approximately 470 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Hall District Elementary serve?
Hall District Elementary serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hall District Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hall District Elementary is approximately 21.7:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hall District Elementary?
At Hall District Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 96% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Hall District Elementary public or private?
Hall District Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pajaro Valley Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.