Scandia Elementary

Scandia Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Travis AFB, California, part of Travis Unified, caters to 432 students in grades K through 6.

Within Travis Unified, which oversees 8 schools and 5,392 students, Scandia Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Scandia Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 32% White, 14% Black, 14% multiracial, 5% Asian. Compared to Solano County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Scandia Elementary lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Scandia Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Scandia Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 47.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Solano County shows median household income runs about $100,401, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Scandia Elementary is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

Center Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Scandia Elementary. On composite proficiency, Scandia Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Scandia Elementary's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 432). White enrollment moved from 47% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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