Hort Elementary

Located at 2301 Park Dr., in Bakersfield, California, Hort Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school that teaches 590 students (grades K through 5), part of Bakersfield City. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 27% bigger than typical.

Bakersfield City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 28,365 students. Hort Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hort Elementary logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 9% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hort Elementary logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Hort Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hort Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.3%; this one delivers 18.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kern County) reports that median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Hort Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Walter Stiern Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 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), Hort Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.8%.

Hort Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Hort Elementary's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 590).

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.