Shackelford Elementary

Shackelford Elementary is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Modesto, California, one of the schools within Modesto City Elementary, with 495 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Shackelford Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Modesto City Elementary, a district that teaches 14,444 students overall.

On demographics, Shackelford Elementary records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Shackelford Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Shackelford Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.9%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Across the wider county, Stanislaus County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Shackelford Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Aspire University Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shackelford Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 21.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Shackelford Elementary's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 495). Class-load math has tightened: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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