Imperial Cross Elementary

Set in Imperial, California, Imperial Cross Elementary is a sprawling elementary-level community, one of the schools within Imperial Unified. It serves 760 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% above the state mean of about 465.

Imperial Cross Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Imperial Unified, a district that works with 4,794 students overall.

On demographics, Imperial Cross Elementary lists that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 6% White.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at Imperial Cross Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Imperial Cross Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.0%; this one delivers 44.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Imperial County indicate median household income runs about $57,681, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Imperial County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), of which Imperial Cross Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Imperial Ave. Holbrook High, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Imperial Cross Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.4%.

Imperial Cross Elementary operates from an outlying location.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Imperial Cross Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.