Kirkwood Elementary

Located at 2049 Kirkwood Rd., in Corning, California, Kirkwood Elementary is a tiny K-5 school that instructs 105 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Kirkwood Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 77% leaner than typical.

Kirkwood Elementary is a school of Kirkwood Elementary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Kirkwood Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tehama County (around 72%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Kirkwood Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.1%; actual is 22.1%, a gap of -33.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tehama County shows median household earnings sit near $63,784, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Kirkwood Elementary is one of 41 public schools in Tehama County (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students).

Columbia Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.3 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kirkwood Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 20.0%.

Kirkwood Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Kirkwood Elementary's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 97 (now 105). White enrollment moved from 67% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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