Stratford Elementary

Stratford Elementary, a tight-knit primary school in Stratford, California, operated by Central Union Elementary, educates 294 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 37% smaller than typical.

Central Union Elementary comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,508 students; Stratford Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Stratford Elementary lists that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 5% White, 4% Native American, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Stratford Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stratford Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 25.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $70,995, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stratford Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).

Nearest neighbor: Central Elementary, around 4.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Stratford Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 297 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 in 2025.

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