Mammoth Elementary

Mammoth Elementary is a primary school of mid-sized scale in Mammoth Lakes, California, one of the schools within Mammoth Unified, works with 505 students in grades K through 5.

Mammoth Unified comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,087 students; Mammoth Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mammoth Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 39% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Mono County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mammoth Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Mammoth Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mammoth Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.1%; Mammoth Elementary posts 37.2%, -14.9 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Mono County reports that median household income runs about $99,415, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mammoth Elementary is one of 15 public schools in Mono County (combined enrollment of about 1,446 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mammoth Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mammoth Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 538 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 62% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.