Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy

Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy is an elementary-level community of modestly sized scale in East Palo Alto, California, run under Ravenswood City Elementary, enrolling 276 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 465.

Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy is one of 4 schools operated by Ravenswood City Elementary, a district that works with 1,445 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 26.4%; actual is 5.3%, a gap of -21.1 points.

Around the school, San Mateo County reports that median household earnings sit near $158,855, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: East Palo Alto Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 276).

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