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What's something Landmark Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
419
Elementary
DISTRICT 434 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 062949011461
Landmark Elementary
235 Ohlone Pkwy., Watsonville, CA 95076 · (831) 761-7940 · Santa Cruz County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL419 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
382 students
DISTRICT 81% · 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 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
13.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.3pp since 2014
Math
10.0%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 2.5% | 11.3% | 21.3% | 65.0% |
| Math | 2.9% | 7.1% | 17.5% | 72.5% |
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 | 13.8% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.0% | 8.0% |
| 2022-23 | 12.4% | 13.7% |
| 2021-22 | 18.4% | 11.7% |
| 2018-19 | 21.9% | 18.0% |
| 2017-18 | 18.9% | 18.8% |
| 2016-17 | 12.7% | 15.6% |
| 2015-16 | 18.0% | 17.0% |
| 2014-15 | 14.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
11.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 26% 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 Landmark Elementary
Landmark Elementary's state test result (11.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landmark Elementary this school | 419 | 91.2% | 11.0% |
| Frank Sparkes Elementary Winton | 422 | 92.7% | 60.7% |
| Pleasant View Elementary Porterville | 446 | 91.3% | 14.0% |
| Walnut Elementary La Habra | 446 | 90.8% | 25.6% |
| Ranchito Avenue Elementary Panorama City | 421 | 90.7% | 40.1% |
| Washington Colony Elementary Fresno | 414 | 88.4% | 35.9% |
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 Landmark Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Cruz County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #5,080 of 5,151 | #33 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #5,042 of 5,172 ▲ 43 | #33 of 36 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #5,081 of 5,172 ▲ 2 | #31 of 36 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.2pp | #918 of 5,116 | #6 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 419 | #3,440 of 5,915 | #16 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #362 of 5,352 | #3 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.8% | #4,549 of 5,354 | #22 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.2% | #946 of 5,625 | #10 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.3% | #1,058 of 3,837 | #12 of 30 |
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
419
-23 (-5%) vs 2020
-31% since 2010-11, when it was 611
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 419 | 22.8 | 18.4:1 | 91% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 21.8 | 18.6:1 | 91% (369) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 21.8 | 18.9:1 | 93% (384) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | 21 | 21.1:1 | 85% (374) |
| 2017-18 | 546 | 19 | 28.7:1 | 76% (417) |
| 2015-16 | 607 | 27 | 22.5:1 | 86% (519) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | N/A | N/A | 85% (517) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Landmark Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (546 to 419); teachers up 20% (19 to 22.8).
About Landmark Elementary
Landmark Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Watsonville, California. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 419 students in kindergarten through 5.
The 33 schools in Pajaro Valley Unified enroll 16,482 students altogether, Landmark Elementary among them.
At Landmark Elementary, Hispanic students make up 90% of the student body. It is also 5% White and 4% Asian. Santa Cruz County's residents are about 35% Hispanic, 55 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Landmark Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 18%.
The school reports 22.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 18.4 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 91% of students. The average for public schools in Santa Cruz County is 52%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Landmark Elementary would score about 26.1%. It scores 11.0%, a bottom-10% result among California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Santa Cruz County census figures show that median household income is about $111,093, roughly 44% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Landmark Elementary is among the 83 public schools in Santa Cruz County.
Of nearby public schools, New School Community Day is the closest, at about 0.1 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Landmark Elementary is 6th of 8 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Landmark Elementary as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Landmark Elementary had 442 students in 2020-21 and 419 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 21.1:1 to 18.4:1 over the same years.
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Santa Cruz County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
264,926
Census ACS
Median income
$111,093
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,316 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pajaro Valley Unified
- Watsonville HighHigh · 2,215 students
- Pajaro Valley HighHigh · 1,293 students
- Aptos HighHigh · 1,274 students
- Alianza CharterElementary · 626 students
- Rolling Hills MiddleMiddle · 588 students
- Aptos Junior HighMiddle · 587 students
Other schools in Watsonville
- Watsonville HighHigh · 2,215 students
- Pajaro Valley HighHigh · 1,293 students
- Alianza CharterElementary · 626 students
- Rolling Hills MiddleMiddle · 588 students
- Cesar E. Chavez MiddleMiddle · 548 students
- Bradley ElementaryElementary · 520 students
Other Landmark Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Landmark Elementary. Landmark Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLITTLE ROCK, AR · 301 students
- Landmark Elementary SchoolMcHenry, IL · 189 students
Nearby schools
- New School Community Day0.1 mi · 42
- Starlight Elementary0.6 mi · 383
- Cesar E. Chavez Middle0.6 mi · 548
- Diamond Technology Institute0.8 mi · 87
- Radcliff Elementary0.8 mi · 409
- Pajaro Valley High0.9 mi · 1,293
Frequently asked questions
About Landmark ElementaryHow large is Landmark Elementary?
Landmark Elementary enrolls approximately 419 students in grades KG-05.
Is Landmark Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Landmark Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Landmark Elementary have?
Landmark Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Landmark Elementary?
Student demographics at Landmark Elementary are roughly 5% White, 90% Hispanic, 0% Black, 4% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Landmark Elementary in?
Landmark Elementary is part of Pajaro Valley Unified.
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