Hurd Barrington Elementary

Located at 838 Eucalyptus Ave., in Newman, California, Hurd Barrington Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that instructs 428 students (grades K through 5), part of Newman-Crows Landing Unified.

Newman-Crows Landing Unified comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,085 students; Hurd Barrington Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hurd Barrington Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 15% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hurd Barrington Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of -14.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Stanislaus County put the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Hurd Barrington Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Newman-Crows Landing Independent Study, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hurd Barrington Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 25.5%.

Hurd Barrington Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 484 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 23% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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