Meadows Elementary

Meadows Elementary is one of the small elementary-level communitys in El Centro, California, run under Meadows Union, with 352 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 24% below typical.

Meadows Elementary is a school of Meadows Union, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Meadows Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). The remainder reads as 6% White.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Meadows Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Meadows Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Imperial County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,681 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Meadows Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Imperial County (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students).

Valley Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Meadows Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadows Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadows Elementary has edged down 30%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 15% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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