Myra A. Noble Elementary

Myra A. Noble Elementary is an elementary-level community of sprawling scale in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Bakersfield City, instructing 813 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Myra A. Noble Elementary sits 75% above that benchmark.

Myra A. Noble Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Bakersfield City, a district that instructs 28,365 students overall.

On demographics, Myra A. Noble Elementary shows that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 6% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

After controlling for student poverty, Myra A. Noble Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 13.2%, a residual of -12.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Kern County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Myra A. Noble Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Myra A. Noble Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 17.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 872 students in 2018 compared to 813 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 81% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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