Ronald Reagan Elementary

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Chowchilla, California, Ronald Reagan Elementary works with 490 students from grades 3 through 4, run under Chowchilla Elementary.

Ronald Reagan Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Chowchilla Elementary, a district that caters to 2,143 students overall.

Demographically, Ronald Reagan Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder breaks down as 20% White. By comparison, Madera County as a whole is about 61% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Ronald Reagan Elementary reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ronald Reagan Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madera County (around 81%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ronald Reagan Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.8%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Madera County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,627 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Ronald Reagan Elementary is one of 81 public schools in Madera County (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students).

Stephens Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ronald Reagan Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

Ronald Reagan Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ronald Reagan Elementary has showed little movement, going from 490 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 63% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.2:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

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