Podesta Ranch Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Stockton, California, Podesta Ranch Elementary caters to 406 students from grades K through 6, run under Lodi Unified.

Podesta Ranch Elementary is one of 46 schools operated by Lodi Unified, a district that enrolls 27,047 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Podesta Ranch Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% White. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Podesta Ranch Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Podesta Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Podesta Ranch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Elkhorn, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Podesta Ranch Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 34.7%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Podesta Ranch Elementary has contracted 15%, going from 480 students in 2018 to 406 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 15% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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