Isleton Elementary

Set in Isleton, California, Isleton Elementary is a close-knit elementary school, run under River Delta Joint Unified. It educates 188 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Isleton Elementary sits 60% below that benchmark.

River Delta Joint Unified comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 1,705 students; Isleton Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Isleton Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 30% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Isleton Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.3%; actual is 51.8%, +19.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Isleton Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is D. H. White Elementary, roughly 4.6 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Isleton Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 20.6%.

Isleton Elementary operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Isleton Elementary's enrollment has edged up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 160 (now 188). Hispanic enrollment moved from 56% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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