Schendel Elementary

Schendel Elementary is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Delhi, California, overseen by Delhi Unified, educateing 458 students in grades K through 6.

Delhi Unified runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,276 students. Schendel Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Schendel Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest breaks down as 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Merced County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Schendel Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Schendel Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Merced County's rate of about 81%.

With demographic context factored in, Schendel Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.2%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Merced County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,510 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Merced County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), Schendel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

El Capitan Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Schendel Elementary. On composite proficiency, Schendel Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 507 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Schendel Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.