Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary

Located at 651 West Springer Dr., in Turlock, California, Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary is a large primary school that educates 753 students (grades K through 6), part of Turlock Unified. That puts it 62% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Turlock Unified comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 13,478 students; Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% White, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.2%; this one delivers 39.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate median household income runs about $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walnut Elementary Education Center, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sandra Tovar Medeiros Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 837 students in 2018 compared to 753 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 47% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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