1
Enrollment
780
Elementary
DISTRICT 619 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAKERSFIELD CITY·NCES 060363000307
Longfellow Elementary
1900 Stockton St., Bakersfield, CA 93305 · (661) 631-5350 · Kern County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL780 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of California public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
747 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 150 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 105 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (150) is 43% larger than its 6th grade class (105).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
15.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.3pp since 2014
Math
8.0%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.6% | 11.7% | 19.6% | 65.2% |
| Math | 0.9% | 7.1% | 14.7% | 77.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.3% | 8.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.4% | 6.5% |
| 2022-23 | 18.9% | 8.2% |
| 2021-22 | 16.0% | 6.6% |
| 2018-19 | 18.8% | 9.5% |
| 2017-18 | 16.4% | 7.2% |
| 2016-17 | 18.0% | 10.0% |
| 2015-16 | 15.0% | 7.0% |
| 2014-15 | 11.0% | 9.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Longfellow Elementary
Longfellow Elementary's state test result (12.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Elementary this school | 780 | 95.8% | 12.7% |
| College Heights Elementary Bakersfield | 761 | 94.7% | 13.5% |
| Leo G. Pauly Elementary Bakersfield | 694 | 93.9% | 25.5% |
| Seventy-Fifth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 752 | 96.8% | 30.3% |
| Hemet Elementary Hemet | 783 | 93.5% | 17.6% |
| Evergreen Elementary Bakersfield | 660 | 96.8% | 20.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Longfellow Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Kern County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #5,037 of 5,151 | #141 of 148 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.0% | #5,109 of 5,172 ▲ 14 | #145 of 150 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #5,040 of 5,172 ▼ 337 | #146 of 150 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.4pp | #3,203 of 5,116 | #100 of 147 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 780 | #441 of 5,915 | #31 of 163 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #799 of 5,352 | #28 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.8% | #3,904 of 5,354 | #86 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.8% | #346 of 5,625 | #22 of 153 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #3,221 of 3,837 | #74 of 95 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
780
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 811
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 20.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 780 | 39.6 | 19.7:1 | 96% (747) |
| 2023-24 | 764 | 38.5 | 19.9:1 | 97% (744) |
| 2022-23 | 746 | 36 | 20.7:1 | 95% (705) |
| 2020-21 | 787 | 39 | 20.2:1 | 98% (775) |
| 2017-18 | 828 | 40 | 20.7:1 | 97% (803) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 40 | 21.3:1 | 95% (809) |
| 2010-11 | 698 | N/A | N/A | 97% (676) |
| 2000-01 | 791 | 45 | 17.6:1 | 92% (730) |
| 1990-91 | 811 | 31 | 26.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (828 to 780); teachers down 1% (40 to 39.6).
About Longfellow Elementary
Longfellow Elementary sits in Bakersfield, California, and is classified as an elementary school. The school has 780 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 6. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Bakersfield City runs 44 schools with a combined 28,365 students. Longfellow Elementary is one of them.
A large majority of enrollment at Longfellow Elementary is Hispanic, at 82%. It is also 9% Black and 7% White. Kern County's residents are about 57% Hispanic, 26 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 31%.
Longfellow Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1, with 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. The school has 96% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Kern County report 76%.
Among California public elementary schools, Longfellow Elementary outscored 4%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Longfellow Elementary is 10.8 points below its prediction. Actual: 12.7%. Predicted: 23.4%.
The county, Kern County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $70,210, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 279 public schools and about 197,431 students.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Stella I. Hills Elementary, is the closest to Longfellow Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Longfellow Elementary. Its average proficiency rate of 12.7% is below the 26.1% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 787 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 780.
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Kern County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
915,075
Census ACS
Median income
$70,210
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
279
197,431 students
Quick facts
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Other Longfellow Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 18 states are named Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 37.
- Longfellow ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 904 students
- Longfellow ElementaryRiverside, CA · 701 students
- Longfellow ElementaryWhittier, CA · 499 students
- Longfellow ElementarySan Francisco, CA · 466 students
- Longfellow ElementaryCompton, CA · 450 students
Nearby schools
- Stella I. Hills Elementary0.8 mi · 670
- Jefferson Elementary0.8 mi · 510
- Valley Oaks Charter1.0 mi · 1,087
- Downtown Elementary1.1 mi · 317
- Myra A. Noble Elementary1.2 mi · 813
- Kern County Community1.3 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Longfellow Elementary?
Longfellow Elementary enrolls approximately 780 students in grades KG-06.
Is Longfellow Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Longfellow Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Longfellow Elementary have?
Longfellow Elementary employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Longfellow Elementary?
Student demographics at Longfellow Elementary are roughly 7% White, 82% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Longfellow Elementary in?
Longfellow Elementary is part of Bakersfield City.
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