Orville Wright Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Modesto, California, Orville Wright Elementary enrolls 399 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Modesto City Elementary.

Modesto City Elementary comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 14,444 students; Orville Wright Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Orville Wright Elementary lists that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 12% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Orville Wright Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Orville Wright Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Orville Wright Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.4%; this one delivers 11.9%.

Across the wider county, Stanislaus County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Orville Wright Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tuolumne Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orville Wright Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 396 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Orville Wright Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.