Mable Barron

Set in Stockton, California, Mable Barron is a mid-sized elementary school, run under Lincoln Unified. It teaches 657 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Mable Barron sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Lincoln Unified, which oversees 13 schools and 8,721 students, Mable Barron is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mable Barron lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder is composed of 13% Black, 13% White, 10% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Mable Barron reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mable Barron tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.1%.

Around the school, census data for San Joaquin County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Mable Barron is one campus in the mix.

Tully C. Knoles is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mable Barron. On composite proficiency, Mable Barron comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Mable Barron operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mable Barron has shrank 8%, going from 716 students in 2018 to 657 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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