Planz Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Bakersfield, California, Planz Elementary serves 610 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Greenfield Union. Enrollment runs roughly 31% above the state mean of about 465.

Within Greenfield Union, which oversees 13 schools and 8,860 students, Planz Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Planz Elementary lists that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Black, 6% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, On paper, Planz Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.2:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Planz Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.9%, the actual is 17.6%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kern County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Planz Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Amy B. Seibert Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Planz Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 30.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Planz Elementary's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 737 (now 610). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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