Mojave Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary school in Mojave, California, Mojave Elementary enrolls 420 students from grades K through 5, operated by Mojave Unified.

Mojave Unified comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,902 students; Mojave Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Mojave Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Black, 10% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 91% of students at Mojave Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Kern County's rate of about 76%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mojave Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.4%; Mojave Elementary posts 6.5%, -19.0 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kern County put median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Mojave Elementary is one.

Mojave Jr./Sr. High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Mojave Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mojave Elementary has ticked down 3%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 35% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Mojave Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.