Laurelglen Elementary

Laurelglen Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Bakersfield, California, run under Panama-Buena Vista Union, caters to 574 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Laurelglen Elementary sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Laurelglen Elementary is one of 25 schools operated by Panama-Buena Vista Union, a district that caters to 19,366 students overall.

Demographically, Laurelglen Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 20% multiracial, 14% White, 8% Black, 2% Asian. Compared to Kern County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Laurelglen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kern County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Laurelglen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Christa McAuliffe Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurelglen Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Laurelglen Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Laurelglen Elementary has showed little movement, going from 585 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 30% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

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