Laytonville Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary school in Laytonville, California, Laytonville Elementary enrolls 217 students from grades K through 8, operated by Laytonville Unified. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Laytonville Unified comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 315 students; Laytonville Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Laytonville Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Native American, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Laytonville Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% 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, Laytonville Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.0%; Laytonville Elementary posts 15.7%, -19.4 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Mendocino County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,092, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Mendocino County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,738 students), Laytonville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Laytonville High, around 0.4 miles off. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Laytonville Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Laytonville Elementary's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 256 (now 217). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 17% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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