Sierra View Elementary

Sierra View Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Oakdale, California, overseen by Oakdale Joint Unified, enrolling 665 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Sierra View Elementary sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

Oakdale Joint Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,113 students. Sierra View Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Sierra View Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 46% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sierra View Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Stanislaus County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sierra View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of +2.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Stanislaus County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Sierra View Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oakdale Junior High, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sierra View Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sierra View Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 652 students in 2018 to 665 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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