Stine Elementary

Located at 4300 Wilson Rd., in Bakersfield, California, Stine Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus that teaches 615 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Panama-Buena Vista Union. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Stine Elementary sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

Panama-Buena Vista Union runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 19,366 students. Stine Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Stine Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, Stine Elementary logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Stine Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Stine Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.8%; this one delivers 19.1%.

Across the wider county, Kern County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Stine Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Fred L. Thompson Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stine Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 655 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 63% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Stine Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.