Jacoby Creek

Jacoby Creek operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Bayside, California, one of the schools within Jacoby Creek Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 455 students spanning grades K through 8.

Jacoby Creek Elementary is the operating authority for Jacoby Creek, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Jacoby Creek records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Jacoby Creek logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Humboldt County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Jacoby Creek tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.9%.

In the area at large, Humboldt County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,160, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Jacoby Creek is one of 92 public schools in Humboldt County (combined enrollment of about 17,319 students).

The closest other public school is Sunny Brae Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jacoby Creek comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 462 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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