Northwood Elementary

Set in Napa, California, Northwood Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school, overseen by Napa Valley Unified. It teaches 381 students across grades K through 5.

Northwood Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Napa Valley Unified, a district that educates 16,077 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Northwood Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 45% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Napa County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Northwood Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Napa County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, Northwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 54.9%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Napa County reports that median household income runs about $111,471, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Napa County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,557 students), Northwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Redwood Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Northwood Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwood Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 380 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 53% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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