Lucille M. Nixon Elementary

Set in Stanford, California, Lucille M. Nixon Elementary is an intimate elementary campus, operated by Palo Alto Unified. It educates 350 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lucille M. Nixon Elementary sits 25% below that benchmark.

Palo Alto Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 10,187 students. Lucille M. Nixon Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lucille M. Nixon Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% White, 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lucille M. Nixon Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.9%; this one delivers 88.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Lucille M. Nixon Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Escondido Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lucille M. Nixon Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 74.5%.

Lucille M. Nixon Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lucille M. Nixon Elementary's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 350). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 41% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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