Maple Elementary

Set in Shafter, California, Maple Elementary is a tight-knit primary school, overseen by Maple Elementary. It instructs 287 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Maple Elementary sits 38% below that benchmark.

Operationally, Maple Elementary answers to Maple Elementary, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Maple Elementary lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 20% White. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Maple Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Maple Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Grow Academy Shafter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Maple Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 283 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 32% to 20%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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