Julius Cordes Elementary

Julius Cordes Elementary is a primary school of high-enrollment scale in Mountain House, California, part of Lammersville Joint Unified, caters to 877 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 89% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 9 schools in Lammersville Joint Unified (7,945 students total), Julius Cordes Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Julius Cordes Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (84%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 5% White, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Julius Cordes Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.0%; this one delivers 84.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put median household income runs about $92,179, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Julius Cordes Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mountain House High, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Julius Cordes Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.