Mokelumne Hill Elementary

Mokelumne Hill Elementary, a minimally staffed elementary school in Mokelumne Hill, California, part of Calaveras Unified, educates 149 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Mokelumne Hill Elementary sits 68% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Calaveras Unified, which oversees 9 schools and 2,841 students, Mokelumne Hill Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mokelumne Hill Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 15% multiracial. By comparison, Calaveras County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mokelumne Hill Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Mokelumne Hill Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mokelumne Hill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -8.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Calaveras County put median household earnings sit near $78,647, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Calaveras County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,261 students), Mokelumne Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oakendell Community, around 5.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Mokelumne Hill Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Mokelumne Hill Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Mokelumne Hill Elementary's enrollment has edged up 77% since 2018, when it stood at 84 (now 149). The White share of enrollment declined from 71% to 67% over that span.

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