Prosperity Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Bakersfield, California, Prosperity Elementary instructs 543 students from grades K through 5, run under Greenfield Union.

Greenfield Union runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,860 students. Prosperity Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Prosperity Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 10% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

After controlling for student poverty, Prosperity Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 24.2%, a residual of +3.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Prosperity Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is South High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prosperity Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.8%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prosperity Elementary has decreased 17%, going from 654 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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