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What tradition at Joshua Cowell Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
702
Elementary
DISTRICT 787 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANTECA UNIFIED·NCES 062361004004
Joshua Cowell Elementary
740 Pestana Ave., Manteca, CA 95336 · (209) 858-7310 · San Joaquin County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL702 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
465 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 72 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 62 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 69 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 57% larger than its 8th grade class (69).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
23.5%
CA avg 49.1% . -10.5pp since 2014
Math
17.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 4.4% | 19.1% | 27.9% | 48.7% |
| Math | 5.9% | 11.2% | 27.8% | 55.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.5% | 17.1% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 12.1% |
| 2022-23 | 27.4% | 19.1% |
| 2021-22 | 36.6% | 17.1% |
| 2018-19 | 48.7% | 24.2% |
| 2017-18 | 47.4% | 23.3% |
| 2016-17 | 41.5% | 24.3% |
| 2015-16 | 37.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 34.0% | 22.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Joshua Cowell Elementary
Joshua Cowell Elementary's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Cowell Elementary this school | 702 | 66.2% | 19.6% |
| Stella Brockman Elementary Manteca | 833 | 67.2% | 25.3% |
| Allan Peterson Elementary Merced | 690 | 67.0% | 38.7% |
| Brock Elliott Elementary Manteca | 758 | 60.3% | 28.5% |
| Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary Tracy | 555 | 67.2% | 35.9% |
| River Bluff Elementary Fresno | 694 | 68.2% | 58.1% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Joshua Cowell Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Joaquin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #4,612 of 5,151 | #107 of 138 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #4,562 of 5,172 ▲ 344 | #103 of 138 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #4,612 of 5,172 ▼ 312 | #107 of 138 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.6pp | #345 of 5,116 | #11 of 136 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 702 | #747 of 5,915 | #45 of 159 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #2,435 of 5,352 | #39 of 149 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #1,292 of 5,354 | #44 of 149 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.2% | #3,162 of 5,625 | #101 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.9% | #214 of 1,139 | #6 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
702
+61 (+10%) vs 2020
+8% since 2000-01, when it was 652
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 22.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 702 | 31.5 | 22.3:1 | 66% (465) |
| 2023-24 | 714 | 30.6 | 23.3:1 | 68% (488) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 29.4 | 24.1:1 | 56% (396) |
| 2020-21 | 641 | 29 | 22.1:1 | 73% (471) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 24 | 24.0:1 | 59% (339) |
| 2015-16 | 577 | 23 | 25.1:1 | 58% (332) |
| 2010-11 | 643 | N/A | N/A | 46% (295) |
| 2000-01 | 652 | 33 | 19.8:1 | 41% (265) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Joshua Cowell Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (576 to 702); teachers up 31% (24 to 31.5).
About Joshua Cowell Elementary
Joshua Cowell Elementary is a public elementary school in Manteca, California. The school enrolls 702 students in kindergarten through 8. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Joshua Cowell Elementary is in Manteca Unified, a district with 25,347 students across 30 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Joshua Cowell Elementary is 53% Hispanic. Other groups include 19% Asian, 17% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The county population is about 43% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
Joshua Cowell Elementary reported 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 22.3:1. The ratio is within a point of the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Roughly 66% of students at Joshua Cowell Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in San Joaquin County average a similar 66%.
Among California public elementary schools, Joshua Cowell Elementary outscored 1%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Joshua Cowell Elementary is among the bottom 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 40.7%. Actual: 19.6%.
In the surrounding county, San Joaquin County, the median household earns about $92,179 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. San Joaquin County has 251 public schools with about 153,026 students, including Joshua Cowell Elementary.
Joshua Cowell Elementary is about 0.8 miles from Calla High, its nearest public school. Joshua Cowell Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Joshua Cowell Elementary ranks 4th of 6 nearby schools, at 19.6% versus a 25.0% average.
Locale data from NCES put Joshua Cowell Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000 (Suburb: Small).
From 641 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 702 by 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on special education services, counseling, and support programs here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
San Joaquin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
797,334
Census ACS
Median income
$92,179
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
251
153,026 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Manteca Unified
- Manteca HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Sierra HighHigh · 1,670 students
- East Union HighHigh · 1,524 students
- Lathrop HighHigh · 1,486 students
- Veritas ElementaryElementary · 1,266 students
- Nile Garden ElementaryElementary · 1,221 students
Other schools in Manteca
- Manteca HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Sierra HighHigh · 1,670 students
- East Union HighHigh · 1,524 students
- Veritas ElementaryElementary · 1,266 students
- Nile Garden ElementaryElementary · 1,221 students
- George McParland ElementaryElementary · 1,195 students
Nearby schools
- Calla High0.8 mi · 140
- Shasta Elementary1.0 mi · 726
- Lincoln Elementary1.3 mi · 736
- Manteca High1.5 mi · 1,907
- New Haven Elementary1.7 mi · 514
- Golden West Elementary1.7 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About Joshua Cowell ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Joshua Cowell Elementary?
Joshua Cowell Elementary enrolls approximately 702 students in grades KG-08.
Is Joshua Cowell Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Joshua Cowell Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Joshua Cowell Elementary?
Approximately 22.3:1 students per teacher at Joshua Cowell Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Joshua Cowell Elementary?
Student demographics at Joshua Cowell Elementary are roughly 17% White, 53% Hispanic, 3% Black, 19% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Joshua Cowell Elementary in?
Joshua Cowell Elementary is part of Manteca Unified.
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