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Lost Hills Elementary is a tight-knit elementary school in Lost Hills, California, operated by Lost Hills Union Elementary. The school works with 201 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lost Hills Elementary sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.
Within Lost Hills Union Elementary, which oversees 2 schools and 291 students, Lost Hills Elementary is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Lost Hills Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Lost Hills Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.8%; this one delivers 32.4%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kern County put the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Lost Hills Elementary is one.
The closest other public school is A. M. Thomas Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lost Hills Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lost Hills Elementary has decreased 38%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 201 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.
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