Nuestro Elementary

Set in Live Oak, California, Nuestro Elementary is an one-room-style elementary-level community, overseen by Nuestro Elementary. It enrolls 170 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Nuestro Elementary sits inside Nuestro Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Nuestro Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 11% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school employs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Nuestro Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.2%; this one comes in at 29.6%, -16.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Sutter County reports that median household income runs about $79,704, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Sutter County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students), Nuestro Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Sutter Peak Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nuestro Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Nuestro Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nuestro Elementary has increased 6%, going from 161 students in 2018 to 170 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 48% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Nuestro Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.