Monticello Elementary

Set in Tracy, California, Monticello Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, part of Jefferson Elementary. It works with 483 students across grades K through 4.

Jefferson Elementary runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,072 students. Monticello Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Monticello Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 24% Hispanic, 18% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Monticello Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Monticello Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.1%; this one delivers 66.1%.

Around the school, San Joaquin County reports that median household income runs about $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Monticello Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

The closest other public school is Wanda Hirsch Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monticello Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monticello Elementary has rose 16%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 13% to 47% across the same window.

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