Pittman Charter

Pittman Charter, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Stockton, California, overseen by Stockton Unified, educates 619 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Pittman Charter sits 33% above that benchmark.

Pittman Charter is one of 54 schools operated by Stockton Unified, a district that instructs 33,590 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Pittman Charter records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest looks like 5% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Pittman Charter has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Pittman Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.4%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household income runs about $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Pittman Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP University Park, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pittman Charter.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Pittman Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Pittman Charter's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 619). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 82% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 30.2:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

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