Mission Park Elementary

Mission Park Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Salinas, California, one of the schools within Salinas City Elementary, serveing 657 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 41% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Salinas City Elementary, which oversees 15 schools and 8,236 students, Mission Park Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mission Park Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%; the rest breaks down as 13% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Mission Park Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 55% 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mission Park Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.0%; Mission Park Elementary posts 28.0%, -18.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Monterey County put median household earnings sit near $97,230, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monterey County's 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), Mission Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mission Park Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mission Park Elementary's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 699 (now 657). White enrollment moved from 19% to 13% across the same window.

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