Orangewood Elementary

Set in Bakersfield, California, Orangewood Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Edison Elementary. It works with 617 students across grades K through 4. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Orangewood Elementary sits 33% above that benchmark.

Edison Elementary runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,106 students. Orangewood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Orangewood Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder looks like 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, On paper, Orangewood Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 87% of students at Orangewood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Orangewood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of +6.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kern County) reports that median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Orangewood Elementary is one.

Foothill High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orangewood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Orangewood Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orangewood Elementary has rose 7%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 617 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 80% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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