Kettleman City Elementary

Kettleman City Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in Kettleman City, California, overseen by Reef-Sunset Unified, with 239 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 49% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Reef-Sunset Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,663 students; Kettleman City Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Kettleman City Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). The wider county runs roughly 58% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Kettleman City Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kettleman City Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.2%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -1.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $70,995, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kettleman City Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).

The closest other public school is Reef-Sunset Secondary Community Day, roughly 9.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kettleman City Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 15.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Kettleman City Elementary's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 276 (now 239).

On the community side, members of the Kettleman City Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.