Ronald Reagan Elementary

As an expansive K-5 school in Bakersfield, California, Ronald Reagan Elementary enrolls 831 students from grades K through 6, run under Panama-Buena Vista Union. Enrollment runs roughly 79% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Panama-Buena Vista Union runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 19,366 students. Ronald Reagan Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Ronald Reagan Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% Asian, 28% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ronald Reagan Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ronald Reagan Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Kern County shows median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Ronald Reagan Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: American Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ronald Reagan Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ronald Reagan Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Ronald Reagan Elementary's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 938 (now 831). White enrollment moved from 37% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 32.1:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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