Loma Rica Elementary

Loma Rica Elementary is an one-room-style elementary-level community in Marysville, California, overseen by Marysville Joint Unified. The school educates 115 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Loma Rica Elementary sits 75% below that benchmark.

Loma Rica Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Marysville Joint Unified, a district that hosts 10,418 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Loma Rica Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Yuba County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Loma Rica Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Yuba County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Loma Rica Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of -10.8 points.

Around the school, Yuba County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,373 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Loma Rica Elementary is one of 41 public schools in Yuba County (combined enrollment of about 16,045 students).

Nearest neighbor: Foothill Intermediate, around 0.5 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Loma Rica Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Loma Rica Elementary has grew 12%, going from 103 students in 2018 to 115 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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