New Republic Elementary

New Republic Elementary, a moderately sized elementary school in Salinas, California, run under Santa Rita Union Elementary, caters to 482 students, covering grades K through 5.

Santa Rita Union Elementary comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,088 students; New Republic Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, New Republic Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest comes out to 8% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, New Republic Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Republic Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Monterey County) logs that median household earnings sit near $97,230, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which New Republic Elementary is one.

Loma Vista Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, New Republic Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 20.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. New Republic Elementary's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 624 (now 482). The White share of enrollment edged down from 16% to 5% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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