Kohl Open Elementary

Kohl Open Elementary is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in Stockton, California, part of Stockton Unified, with 221 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Stockton Unified, which oversees 54 schools and 33,590 students, Kohl Open Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Kohl Open Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 22% White, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kohl Open Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.4%; Kohl Open Elementary posts 29.8%, -23.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Joaquin County) shows that median household income runs about $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Kohl Open Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Walton Development Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kohl Open Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kohl Open Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

Kohl Open Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kohl Open Elementary has decreased 5%, going from 232 students in 2018 to 221 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 8% to 1% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.8:1 in 2018 to 27.7:1 today.

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