Longfellow Elementary

Longfellow Elementary, a roomy elementary-level community in Bakersfield, California, operated by Bakersfield City, serves 780 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Longfellow Elementary sits 68% above that benchmark.

Within Bakersfield City, which oversees 44 schools and 28,365 students, Longfellow Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Longfellow Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest is composed of 9% Black, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Longfellow Elementary has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Longfellow Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.4%, the actual is 13.7%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kern County shows median household income runs about $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Longfellow Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stella I. Hills Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Longfellow Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 25.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Longfellow Elementary's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 828 (now 780). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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