Nelda Mundy Elementary

Located at 570 Vintage Valley Dr., in Fairfield, California, Nelda Mundy Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community that teaches 756 students (grades K through 5), part of Fairfield-Suisun Unified. That puts it 63% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Nelda Mundy Elementary is one of 31 schools operated by Fairfield-Suisun Unified, a district that hosts 20,505 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Nelda Mundy Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 24% Hispanic, 22% White, 16% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 25% of students at Nelda Mundy Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Solano County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nelda Mundy Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Solano County shows median household earnings sit near $100,401, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Nelda Mundy Elementary is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

Angelo Rodriguez High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nelda Mundy Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Nelda Mundy Elementary's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 804 (now 756). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 31% to 22%.

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