McKinley Elementary

Located at 1177 North Eighth St., in El Centro, California, McKinley Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that caters to 456 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within El Centro Elementary.

Within El Centro Elementary, which oversees 12 schools and 5,157 students, McKinley Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, McKinley Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting McKinley Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, McKinley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.6%; this one delivers 37.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Imperial County) reports that median household income runs about $57,681, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Imperial County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), McKinley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kennedy Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McKinley Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.2%.

McKinley Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. McKinley Elementary's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 439 (now 456).

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