John Muir Elementary

John Muir Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Modesto, California, one of the schools within Modesto City Elementary, educateing 567 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Modesto City Elementary runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 14,444 students. John Muir Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, John Muir Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 20% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting John Muir Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John Muir Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Stanislaus County shows median household earnings sit near $81,468, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. John Muir Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

The closest other public school is Thomas Downey High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Muir Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.2%.

John Muir Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. John Muir Elementary's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 510 (now 567). The White share of enrollment contracted from 26% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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