Henry Eissler Elementary

Henry Eissler Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Bakersfield City. The school caters to 529 students in grades K through 6.

Within Bakersfield City, which oversees 44 schools and 28,365 students, Henry Eissler Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Henry Eissler Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 11% White, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Henry Eissler Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.7%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Across the wider county, Kern County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Henry Eissler Elementary is one.

Chipman Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Henry Eissler Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Henry Eissler Elementary has contracted 8%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 67% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.