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Enrollment
799
Elementary
DISTRICT 787 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANTECA UNIFIED·NCES 062361008160
Neil Hafley Elementary
849 Northgate Ave., Manteca, CA 95336 · (209) 858-7215 · San Joaquin County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL799 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
491 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 22% smaller than its 8th grade class (108).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
28.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -1.3pp since 2014
Math
15.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.4% | 22.3% | 25.1% | 46.1% |
| Math | 3.5% | 12.4% | 21.6% | 62.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.8% | 15.9% |
| 2023-24 | 26.1% | 15.1% |
| 2022-23 | 22.5% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 25.3% | 12.3% |
| 2018-19 | 38.1% | 22.4% |
| 2017-18 | 37.9% | 20.5% |
| 2016-17 | 34.8% | 21.2% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 23.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Neil Hafley Elementary
Neil Hafley Elementary's state test result (21.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Hafley Elementary this school | 799 | 61.5% | 21.4% |
| Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary Merced | 722 | 59.6% | 38.0% |
| Brock Elliott Elementary Manteca | 758 | 60.3% | 28.5% |
| Mission Valley Elementary Tulare | 671 | 61.3% | 39.4% |
| Allan Peterson Elementary Merced | 690 | 67.0% | 38.7% |
| Crossroads Elementary Riverbank | 752 | 61.2% | 43.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Neil Hafley Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Joaquin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.4% | #4,447 of 5,151 | #102 of 138 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #4,663 of 5,172 ▲ 10 | #106 of 138 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #4,099 of 5,172 ▲ 93 | #81 of 138 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #2,119 of 5,116 | #42 of 136 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 799 | #391 of 5,915 | #25 of 159 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.9:1 | #4,834 of 5,352 | #127 of 149 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #2,189 of 5,354 | #76 of 149 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #3,408 of 5,625 | #112 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.3% | #808 of 1,139 | #23 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
799
+119 (+18%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 898
Student : Teacher
25.9:1
was 24.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 799 | 30.8 | 25.9:1 | 61% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 801 | 32.5 | 24.6:1 | 67% (537) |
| 2022-23 | 741 | 29.8 | 24.9:1 | 56% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 680 | 28 | 24.3:1 | 71% (484) |
| 2017-18 | 766 | 27.5 | 27.9:1 | 65% (499) |
| 2015-16 | 779 | 28 | 27.8:1 | 64% (497) |
| 2010-11 | 787 | N/A | N/A | 58% (455) |
| 2000-01 | 963 | 44 | 21.9:1 | 29% (275) |
| 1990-91 | 898 | 34 | 26.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Neil Hafley Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (766 to 799); teachers up 12% (27.5 to 30.8).
About Neil Hafley Elementary
Neil Hafley Elementary is a large elementary school with an address in Manteca, California. The school had 799 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in California is about 465, so this school runs 72% larger than that.
The Manteca Unified system has 30 schools and 25,347 students.
Roughly 62% of students at Neil Hafley Elementary are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 20% White, 11% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. San Joaquin County's residents are about 43% Hispanic, 19 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 56%, meaning two students picked at random have a 56% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 25.9 students per teacher. That is 3.6 students per teacher above the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 61% of students.
Neil Hafley Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Neil Hafley Elementary posts 21.4% against a 43.5% prediction, a bottom-10% result in California.
According to the American Community Survey, in San Joaquin County, the median household income is $92,179, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Neil Hafley Elementary is one of 251 public schools in the county.
The nearest public school is East Union High, at about 0.2 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Neil Hafley Elementary is 5th among 6 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Small. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The school enrolled 799 students in 2024-25, 119 more than the 680 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 24.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 25.9:1.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
San Joaquin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
797,334
Census ACS
Median income
$92,179
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
251
153,026 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Manteca Unified
- Manteca HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Sierra HighHigh · 1,670 students
- East Union HighHigh · 1,524 students
- Lathrop HighHigh · 1,486 students
- Veritas ElementaryElementary · 1,266 students
- Nile Garden ElementaryElementary · 1,221 students
Other schools in Manteca
- Manteca HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Sierra HighHigh · 1,670 students
- East Union HighHigh · 1,524 students
- Veritas ElementaryElementary · 1,266 students
- Nile Garden ElementaryElementary · 1,221 students
- George McParland ElementaryElementary · 1,195 students
Nearby schools
- East Union High0.2 mi · 1,524
- George McParland Elementary0.7 mi · 1,195
- Golden West Elementary1.0 mi · 591
- Stella Brockman Elementary1.3 mi · 833
- Shasta Elementary1.6 mi · 726
- Yosemite School Community Day (7-12)1.6 mi · 45
Frequently asked questions
About Neil Hafley ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Neil Hafley Elementary?
Neil Hafley Elementary enrolls approximately 799 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Neil Hafley Elementary serve?
Neil Hafley Elementary serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Neil Hafley Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Neil Hafley Elementary is approximately 25.9:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Neil Hafley Elementary?
At Neil Hafley Elementary, the student body is approximately 20% White, 62% Hispanic, 4% Black, 11% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Neil Hafley Elementary in?
Neil Hafley Elementary is part of Manteca Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.