Nile Garden Elementary

Nile Garden Elementary is a sizable elementary campus in Manteca, California, part of Manteca Unified. The school enrolls 1,221 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 163% above the state mean of about 465.

Manteca Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 25,347 students. Nile Garden Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nile Garden Elementary records that 53% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic, 12% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Nile Garden Elementary has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 27.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Nile Garden Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Joaquin County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Nile Garden Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for San Joaquin County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Nile Garden Elementary is one.

Veritas Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nile Garden Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nile Garden Elementary has increased 118%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 1,221 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 12% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 27.8:1 today.

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