Minnie Cannon Elementary

Minnie Cannon Elementary operates as a rural-scale elementary campus in Middletown, California, one of the schools within Middletown Unified. Current enrollment sits at 164 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Middletown Unified runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,452 students. Minnie Cannon Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Minnie Cannon Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 43% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Minnie Cannon Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Minnie Cannon Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.1%; actual is 15.5%, a gap of -26.6 points.

Around the school, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,621 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lake County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,167 students), Minnie Cannon Elementary is one campus in the mix.

California Online Public Schools North Bay is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Minnie Cannon Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Minnie Cannon Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Minnie Cannon Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 165 (now 164).

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