Lucille Whitehead Intermediate

Lucille Whitehead Intermediate is a small intermediate school in Waterford, California, one of the schools within Waterford Unified. The school hosts 355 students in grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Waterford Unified runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,721 students. Lucille Whitehead Intermediate is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lucille Whitehead Intermediate records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%; the rest reads as 23% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Stanislaus County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lucille Whitehead Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.6%, the actual is 19.3%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Lucille Whitehead Intermediate is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Nearest neighbor: Richard M. Moon Primary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lucille Whitehead Intermediate ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lucille Whitehead Intermediate has changed only slightly, going from 359 students in 2018 to 355 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 23% across the same window.

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