Enrollment
395
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOODLAND JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 064308007007
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary
50 Ashley Ave., Woodland, CA 95695 · (530) 662-1784 · Yolo County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
24.2:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
330 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 79 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 55% larger than its 6th grade class (51).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
28.4%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.6pp since 2014
Math
17.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -3.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.7% | 19.7% | 29.3% | 42.3% |
| Math | 4.8% | 12.6% | 31.9% | 50.7% |
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 | 28.4% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 21.9% |
| 2022-23 | 27.1% | 14.8% |
| 2021-22 | 25.6% | 14.8% |
| 2018-19 | 41.7% | 22.6% |
| 2017-18 | 38.5% | 23.6% |
| 2016-17 | 27.1% | 17.1% |
| 2015-16 | 40.0% | 23.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
25.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Rhoda Maxwell Elementary
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary's state test result (25.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhoda Maxwell Elementary this school | 395 | 83.5% | 25.2% |
| Powers-Ginsburg Elementary Fresno | 421 | 82.9% | 30.1% |
| Stagg Street Elementary Van Nuys | 413 | 83.1% | 55.1% |
| Alice N. Stroud Elementary Modesto | 379 | 81.3% | 26.3% |
| Capistrano Avenue Elementary West Hills | 415 | 81.0% | 54.2% |
| John Reed Primary Rohnert Park | 376 | 83.5% | 16.4% |
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 Rhoda Maxwell Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Yolo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #4,052 of 5,151 | #21 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #4,536 of 5,172 ▼ 581 | #23 of 29 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #4,143 of 5,172 ▼ 723 | #22 of 29 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.6pp | #2,457 of 5,116 | #5 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #3,755 of 5,915 | #25 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.2:1 | #3,916 of 5,352 | #28 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.9% | #3,136 of 5,354 | #25 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.5% | #1,825 of 5,625 | #8 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.2% | #2,413 of 3,837 | #12 of 23 |
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.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
395
-55 (-12%) vs 2017
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 508
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
was 22.5:1
% White
14%
was 21%
% Hispanic
72%
was 72%
% Black
2%
was 1%
% Asian
6%
was 4%
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 | 395 | 16.3 | 24.2:1 | 84% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 370 | 14.1 | 26.2:1 | 85% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 372 | 13 | 28.6:1 | 83% (307) |
| 2017-18 | 450 | 20 | 22.5:1 | 74% (333) |
| 2015-16 | 493 | 20 | 24.6:1 | 78% (385) |
| 2010-11 | 510 | N/A | N/A | 70% (357) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 29 | 18.0:1 | 54% (282) |
| 1990-91 | 508 | 24 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rhoda Maxwell Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (450 to 395); teachers down 18% (20 to 16.3).
About Rhoda Maxwell Elementary
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is a small elementary school. Its address is in Woodland, California. Federal data show 395 students enrolled in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25.
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is run by Woodland Joint Unified, whose 17 schools enroll 9,304 students.
The student body at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is 72% Hispanic. It is also 14% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. Yolo County's residents are about 33% Hispanic, 39 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary are from different groups.
There are about 24.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary, which has 16.3. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 1.9 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is about 84%. Public schools in Yolo County average 59%.
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 21% of California public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is 5.4 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 25.2% actual, 30.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
The county, Yolo County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $91,752, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 67, with about 29,820 students.
Yolo County Special Education is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Rhoda Maxwell Elementary's average proficiency of 25.2% compares with 24.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Small.
The school's student count fell 12% between the 2017-18 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, 14% of students were White, compared with 21% in 2017-18. Students per teacher increased from 22.5 in 2017-18 to 24.2 in 2024-25.
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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 Woodland Joint Unified
- Pioneer HighHigh · 1,582 students
- Woodland Senior HighHigh · 1,155 students
- Ramon S. Tafoya ElementaryElementary · 772 students
- Douglass MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Woodland Prairie ElementaryElementary · 713 students
- Lee MiddleMiddle · 575 students
Other schools in Woodland
- Pioneer HighHigh · 1,582 students
- Woodland Senior HighHigh · 1,155 students
- Ramon S. Tafoya ElementaryElementary · 772 students
- Douglass MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Woodland Prairie ElementaryElementary · 713 students
- Lee MiddleMiddle · 575 students
Nearby schools
- Yolo County Special Education0.1 mi · 166
- Cesar Chavez Community0.2 mi · 47
- Woodland Senior High0.8 mi · 1,155
- Freeman Elementary0.9 mi · 415
- T. L. Whitehead Elementary1.0 mi · 331
- Lee Middle1.0 mi · 575
Frequently asked questions
About Rhoda Maxwell ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary?
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary enrolls approximately 395 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Rhoda Maxwell Elementary serve?
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is approximately 24.2:1 (16 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Rhoda Maxwell Elementary?
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary reports a student body of 14% White, 72% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Rhoda Maxwell Elementary?
Rhoda Maxwell Elementary is overseen by Woodland Joint Unified in Yolo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.