Sinclear Elementary

Sinclear Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school in Ceres, California, part of Ceres Unified. The school serves 581 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Sinclear Elementary sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Ceres Unified (13,665 students total), Sinclear Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sinclear Elementary lists that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 9% Asian, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 50% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Stanislaus County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sinclear Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.3%; this one delivers 29.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Stanislaus County shows median household income runs about $81,468, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Sinclear Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Blaker-Kinser Junior High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sinclear Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sinclear Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 25.3%.

Sinclear Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 685 students in 2018 compared to 581 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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