Lockeford Elementary

Lockeford Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Lockeford, California, run under Lodi Unified. Current enrollment sits at 541 students spanning grades K through 8.

Lodi Unified runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 27,047 students. Lockeford Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lockeford Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 35% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 73% 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, Lockeford Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.9%; this one delivers 28.6%.

In the area at large, census data for San Joaquin County shows median household income runs about $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Lockeford Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Victor Elementary, around 3.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lockeford Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 33.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lockeford Elementary has increased 6%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 541 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2025.

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