McKinnon

Set in Salinas, California, McKinnon is a reasonably sized primary school, overseen by Santa Rita Union Elementary. It works with 439 students across grades K through 5.

Santa Rita Union Elementary comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,088 students; McKinnon is among them.

On demographics, McKinnon lists that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Monterey County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McKinnon tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monterey County indicate median household income runs about $97,230, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which McKinnon is one.

Nearest neighbor: Santa Rita Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts McKinnon at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 492 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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