Sunset

Sunset, an intimate middle-grades school in Bakersfield, California, overseen by Vineland Elementary, hosts 302 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Vineland Elementary runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 638 students. Sunset is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Sunset shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sunset has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Sunset qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunset performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.9%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kern County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Sunset is one.

Vineland Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunset ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sunset's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 325 (now 302).

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