Enrollment
326
Elementary
DISTRICT 511 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYLVAN UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 063867006502
Sylvan Elementary
2908 Coffee Rd., Modesto, CA 95355 · (209) 574-5600 · Stanislaus County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL326 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
262 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 45% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
24.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.2pp since 2014
Math
19.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 7.3% | 17.0% | 24.9% | 50.9% |
| Math | 6.7% | 12.7% | 29.7% | 50.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.2% | 19.4% |
| 2023-24 | 21.2% | 14.4% |
| 2022-23 | 29.8% | 18.9% |
| 2021-22 | 36.8% | 33.0% |
| 2018-19 | 39.1% | 30.5% |
| 2017-18 | 39.1% | 33.1% |
| 2016-17 | 34.1% | 24.6% |
| 2015-16 | 22.0% | 14.0% |
| 2014-15 | 22.0% | 7.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sylvan Elementary
Sylvan Elementary's state test result (19.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylvan Elementary this school | 326 | 80.4% | 19.7% |
| Coleman F. Brown Elementary Modesto | 378 | 83.6% | 17.8% |
| J. X. Wilson Elementary Santa Rosa | 332 | 78.0% | 36.5% |
| Mildred Perkins Elementary Modesto | 362 | 81.5% | 36.3% |
| Burbank Boulevard Elementary North Hollywood | 319 | 81.5% | 49.8% |
| Davis Elementary Stockton | 357 | 81.2% | 18.2% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sylvan Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Stanislaus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.7% | #4,597 of 5,151 | #85 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.4% | #4,357 of 5,172 ▲ 376 | #83 of 100 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #4,555 of 5,172 ▲ 83 | #85 of 100 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -13.1pp | #50 of 5,116 | #1 of 100 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 326 | #4,514 of 5,915 | #88 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #285 of 5,352 | #4 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #1,316 of 5,354 | #10 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.4% | #2,156 of 5,625 | #46 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #3,306 of 3,837 | #44 of 56 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
326
-51 (-14%) vs 2020
-67% since 1990-91, when it was 978
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 22.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 326 | 18 | 18.1:1 | 80% (262) |
| 2023-24 | 320 | 16.5 | 19.4:1 | 77% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 350 | 18 | 19.4:1 | 74% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 377 | 17 | 22.2:1 | 67% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 344 | 14 | 24.6:1 | 72% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 302 | 14 | 21.6:1 | 83% (251) |
| 2010-11 | 318 | N/A | N/A | 71% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 596 | 32 | 18.6:1 | 48% (284) |
| 1990-91 | 978 | 43 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sylvan Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (344 to 326); teachers up 29% (14 to 18).
About Sylvan Elementary
Sylvan Elementary is a small elementary school in California, located in Modesto. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 326 students. Against the 465-student average for elementary schools in California, enrollment here is 30% lower.
Sylvan Union Elementary oversees Sylvan Elementary and 12 other schools, with 7,974 students in total.
Sylvan Elementary's enrollment is 54% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 21% White, 11% Asian, 10% multiracial, and 5% Black. The Hispanic share in Stanislaus County as a whole is similar, at about 50%. Sylvan Elementary has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Sylvan Elementary is 18 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 18.1:1. Among elementary schools in California, the typical ratio is 22.3:1. The school counts 262 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 80%. The rate at public schools in Stanislaus County averages 71%, lower than here.
Sylvan Elementary is graded F by allk12, scoring above 3% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 32.5% at Sylvan Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 19.7%.
Stanislaus County has these Census figures: median household income is about $81,468, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Sylvan Elementary is among the 190 public schools in Stanislaus County.
The nearest other public school, Somerset Middle, is about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Sylvan Elementary is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal counts put enrollment at 377 in 2020-21 and 326 in 2024-25, a 14% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.2:1 in 2020-21 to 18.1:1 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Stanislaus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
553,990
Census ACS
Median income
$81,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
190
106,477 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sylvan Union Elementary
- Elizabeth Ustach MiddleMiddle · 1,016 students
- Somerset MiddleMiddle · 947 students
- Daniel J. Savage MiddleMiddle · 906 students
- Crossroads ElementaryElementary · 752 students
- Freedom ElementaryElementary · 713 students
- Orchard ElementaryElementary · 579 students
Other schools in Modesto
- Joseph A. Gregori HighHigh · 2,346 students
- James C. Enochs HighHigh · 2,304 students
- Modesto HighHigh · 2,292 students
- Thomas Downey HighHigh · 2,192 students
- Grace M. Davis HighHigh · 2,083 students
- Peter Johansen HighHigh · 2,029 students
Other Sylvan Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sylvan Elementary. Sylvan Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Sylvan Elementary SchoolSylvania, OH · 415 students
- Sylvan ElementarySnow Camp, NC · 298 students
Nearby schools
- Somerset Middle0.3 mi · 947
- Sherwood Elementary0.5 mi · 489
- Coleman F. Brown Elementary0.5 mi · 378
- Standiford Elementary0.8 mi · 433
- Fred C. Beyer High0.8 mi · 1,609
- Stockard Coffee Elementary1.1 mi · 461
Frequently asked questions
About Sylvan ElementaryHow large is Sylvan Elementary?
Sylvan Elementary enrolls approximately 326 students in grades KG-05.
Is Sylvan Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sylvan Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sylvan Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sylvan Elementary is approximately 18.1:1 (18 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Sylvan Elementary?
Sylvan Elementary reports a student body of 21% White, 54% Hispanic, 5% Black, 11% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Sylvan Elementary?
Sylvan Elementary is overseen by Sylvan Union Elementary in Stanislaus County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.