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If you had an hour of school board time for Pioneer Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 061062001181
Pioneer Elementary
5215 Hamel St., Davis, CA 95616 · (530) 757-5480 · Yolo County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
172 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 83 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 14% smaller than its 6th grade class (83).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
76.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.2pp since 2014
Math
71.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 48.6% | 27.6% | 13.6% | 10.2% |
| Math | 46.9% | 24.5% | 18.4% | 10.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.2% | 71.5% |
| 2023-24 | 69.6% | 71.7% |
| 2022-23 | 73.0% | 73.7% |
| 2021-22 | 74.5% | 72.5% |
| 2018-19 | 78.7% | 74.5% |
| 2017-18 | 79.4% | 77.4% |
| 2016-17 | 74.6% | 78.7% |
| 2015-16 | 75.0% | 71.0% |
| 2014-15 | 70.0% | 74.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pioneer Elementary
Pioneer Elementary's state test result (72.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Elementary this school | 572 | 30.1% | 72.3% |
| Tesoro del Valle Elementary Valencia | 503 | 32.2% | 75.4% |
| Marin Elementary Albany | 524 | 26.1% | 72.6% |
| Gold Ridge Elementary Folsom | 496 | 26.8% | 59.3% |
| Westbrook Elementary Roseville | 701 | 34.0% | 60.6% |
| Springbrook Elementary Irvine | 539 | 29.1% | 61.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pioneer Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Yolo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #548 of 5,151 | #1 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #536 of 5,172 ▼ 12 | #1 of 29 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #432 of 5,172 ▲ 312 | #2 of 29 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #3,238 of 5,116 | #11 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #1,622 of 5,915 | #7 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.4:1 | #4,061 of 5,352 | #30 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.9% | #206 of 5,354 | #4 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.1% | #4,755 of 5,625 | #30 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.7% | #559 of 1,139 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
572
+19 (+3%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 547
Student : Teacher
24.4:1
was 23.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 572 | 23.4 | 24.4:1 | 30% (172) |
| 2023-24 | 568 | 24.4 | 23.3:1 | 17% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 582 | 23.5 | 24.8:1 | 16% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 553 | 24 | 23.0:1 | 14% (79) |
| 2017-18 | 526 | 19.7 | 26.7:1 | 16% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 555 | 20 | 27.8:1 | 16% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 514 | N/A | N/A | 13% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 795 | 41 | 19.4:1 | 16% (126) |
| 1990-91 | 547 | 25 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pioneer Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (526 to 572); teachers up 19% (19.7 to 23.4).
About Pioneer Elementary
Families in Davis, California, are served by Pioneer Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. The school has 572 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 6. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 23% higher.
Davis Joint Unified has 16 schools and 8,241 students, and Pioneer Elementary is one of those schools.
The largest group at Pioneer Elementary is White students, at 36%. Other students are 30% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 5% Black. That is lower than the 49% White share among all Yolo County residents. The diversity index for Pioneer Elementary is 74%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 24.4 students per teacher. Compared with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 30% of students at Pioneer Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Yolo County, the average is 59%.
Among California public elementary schools, Pioneer Elementary outscored 87%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Pioneer Elementary's results are 10.4 points above predicted: 72.3% against 61.9%.
In Yolo County, median household income comes to about $91,752, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. The county's public schools total 67, with about 29,820 students.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Junior High sits about 1.2 miles from Pioneer Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Pioneer Elementary comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Small: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
From 553 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 572 by 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 24.4 students per teacher, compared with 23.0 in 2020-21.
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Yolo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
220,564
Census ACS
Median income
$91,752
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
67
29,820 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Davis Joint Unified
- Davis Senior HighHigh · 1,755 students
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior HighMiddle · 588 students
- Birch Lane ElementaryElementary · 571 students
- Da Vinci Charter AcademyHigh · 562 students
- North Davis ElementaryElementary · 552 students
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Junior HighMiddle · 533 students
Other schools in Davis
- Davis Senior HighHigh · 1,755 students
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior HighMiddle · 588 students
- Birch Lane ElementaryElementary · 571 students
- Da Vinci Charter AcademyHigh · 562 students
- North Davis ElementaryElementary · 552 students
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Junior HighMiddle · 533 students
Other Pioneer Elementary schools
28 other US public schools in 12 states are named Pioneer Elementary. Pioneer Elementary is the 8th largest of the 29.
- Pioneer ElementaryMerced, CA · 1,055 students
- Pioneer ElementaryBrentwood, CA · 859 students
- Pioneer ElementaryUnion City, CA · 623 students
- Pioneer ElementaryEscondido, CA · 598 students
- Pioneer ElementaryHanford, CA · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Junior High1.2 mi · 533
- Fred T. Korematsu Elementary at Mace Ranch1.4 mi · 509
- Marguerite Montgomery Elementary1.8 mi · 457
- Birch Lane Elementary2.3 mi · 571
- Da Vinci Charter Academy2.6 mi · 562
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High2.8 mi · 588
Frequently asked questions
About Pioneer ElementaryHow many students attend Pioneer Elementary?
Pioneer Elementary enrolls approximately 572 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Pioneer Elementary serve?
Pioneer Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Pioneer Elementary have?
Pioneer Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pioneer Elementary?
At Pioneer Elementary, the student body is approximately 36% White, 16% Hispanic, 5% Black, 30% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Pioneer Elementary?
Pioneer Elementary is overseen by Davis Joint Unified in Yolo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.