Nightingale Charter

Nightingale Charter operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Stockton, California, run under Stockton Unified. Current enrollment sits at 425 students spanning grades K through 8.

Nightingale Charter is one of 54 schools operated by Stockton Unified, a district that teaches 33,590 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Nightingale Charter shows that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 7% Asian, 6% Black. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nightingale Charter tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Nightingale Charter is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Aspire Stockton 6-12 Secondary Academy, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nightingale Charter comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.7%.

Nightingale Charter operates from an inner-city location. Nightingale Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nightingale Charter has increased 5%, going from 406 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 14% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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