McKinley Elementary

McKinley Elementary is an elementary school of expansive scale in Stockton, California, part of Stockton Unified, enrolling 705 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 52% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Stockton Unified comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,590 students; McKinley Elementary is among them.

Demographically, McKinley Elementary logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, McKinley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.0%, the actual is 17.0%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), McKinley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Dolores Huerta Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, McKinley Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 16.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. McKinley Elementary's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 848 (now 705). Hispanic enrollment moved from 79% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 35.2:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 in 2025.

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