Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary

Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Ceres, California, part of Ceres Unified. Current enrollment sits at 503 students spanning grades K through 8.

Ceres Unified comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 13,665 students; Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 70% of students at Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.3%.

Across the wider county, Stanislaus County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Joel J. Hidahl Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 22.6%.

Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary's enrollment has grew 46% since 2018, when it stood at 344 (now 503). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 67% to 73%.

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