Leontine Gracey Elementary

Leontine Gracey Elementary operates as a mid-sized primary school in Merced, California, one of the schools within Merced City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 509 students spanning grades K through 6.

Merced City Elementary comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,108 students; Leontine Gracey Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Leontine Gracey Elementary lists that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 6% Asian, 5% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Merced County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Leontine Gracey Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Leontine Gracey Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.8%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Merced County reports that median household income runs about $65,510, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Merced County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), of which Leontine Gracey Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Valley Merced Community, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leontine Gracey Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leontine Gracey Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 20.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 602 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.

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