Magnolia Elementary

Set in Oakdale, California, Magnolia Elementary is a moderately sized primary school, part of Oakdale Joint Unified. It serves 636 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Magnolia Elementary sits 37% above that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Oakdale Joint Unified (5,113 students total), Magnolia Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Magnolia Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 45% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Stanislaus County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Magnolia Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.1%; Magnolia Elementary posts 33.2%, -16.9 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Stanislaus County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Magnolia Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Valley Oak Online Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Magnolia Elementary. On composite proficiency, Magnolia Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Magnolia Elementary's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 713 (now 636). White enrollment moved from 57% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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