McPherson Elementary

McPherson Elementary is a cozy K-5 school in Napa, California, one of the schools within Napa Valley Unified. The school caters to 376 students in grades K through 5.

McPherson Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Napa Valley Unified, a district that enrolls 16,077 students overall.

On demographics, McPherson Elementary records that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 36% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, McPherson Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at McPherson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Napa County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McPherson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.1%; this one delivers 12.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Napa County) reports that median household income runs about $111,471, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Napa County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,557 students), McPherson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Napa Valley Independent Studies, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, McPherson Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. McPherson Elementary's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 463 (now 376).

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