North Beardsley Elementary

Set in Bakersfield, California, North Beardsley Elementary is a high-enrollment K-5 school, operated by Beardsley Elementary. It serves 757 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 63% above the state mean of about 465.

Beardsley Elementary runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,989 students. North Beardsley Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, North Beardsley Elementary reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Kern County's rate of about 76%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Beardsley Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Kern County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which North Beardsley Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Beardsley Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Beardsley Elementary. On composite proficiency, North Beardsley Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.3%.

North Beardsley Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Beardsley Elementary has grew 3%, going from 733 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 51% to 29% over that span.

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