Jack Franscioni Elementary

Jack Franscioni Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Soledad, California, operated by Soledad Unified. Current enrollment sits at 439 students spanning grades K through 6.

Within Soledad Unified, which oversees 10 schools and 4,805 students, Jack Franscioni Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jack Franscioni Elementary shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 62% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Monterey County's rate of about 76%.

After controlling for student poverty, Jack Franscioni Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Monterey County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which Jack Franscioni Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Pinnacles High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jack Franscioni Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 27%: 604 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 in 2025.

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