Sunflower Elementary

Sunflower Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in El Centro, California, one of the schools within El Centro Elementary, educateing 427 students in grades K through 6.

Sunflower Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by El Centro Elementary, a district that educates 5,157 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Sunflower Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Other groups include 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 86% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sunflower Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunflower Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of +11.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Imperial County shows median household earnings sit near $57,681, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Imperial County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), of which Sunflower Elementary is one.

Imperial Valley Home School Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunflower Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sunflower Elementary's enrollment has grew 8% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 427). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Sunflower Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.