John Marshall Elementary

John Marshall Elementary, a cozy K-5 school in Stockton, California, overseen by Stockton Unified, works with 394 students, covering grades K through 8.

John Marshall Elementary is one of 54 schools operated by Stockton Unified, a district that enrolls 33,590 students overall.

On demographics, John Marshall Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 15% Asian, 13% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, John Marshall Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.8%; actual is 7.2%, a gap of -23.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Joaquin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), John Marshall Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Taylor Leadership Academy, roughly 0.1 miles away. 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), John Marshall Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 19.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Marshall Elementary has edged down 30%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 52% to 63%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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