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How has T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
438
Elementary
DISTRICT 434 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 062949004552
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary
330 Martinelli St., Watsonville, CA 95076 · (831) 728-6315 · Santa Cruz County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL438 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of California public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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
22.0:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
407 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
8.7%
CA avg 49.1% . -12.3pp since 2014
Math
5.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 9 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 2.9% | 5.8% | 17.8% | 73.4% |
| Math | 0.8% | 5.0% | 20.1% | 74.1% |
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 | 8.7% | 5.9% |
| 2023-24 | 10.4% | 4.8% |
| 2022-23 | 12.7% | 7.1% |
| 2021-22 | 11.6% | 9.4% |
| 2018-19 | 24.0% | 16.0% |
| 2017-18 | 19.6% | 13.9% |
| 2016-17 | 13.9% | 8.5% |
| 2015-16 | 24.0% | 13.0% |
| 2014-15 | 21.0% | 10.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
7.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 7% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary's state test result (7.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary this school | 438 | 92.9% | 7.4% |
| Winfield Elementary Winton | 444 | 92.6% | 34.7% |
| Reagan Elementary Lindsay | 426 | 92.5% | 35.2% |
| Castle Rock Elementary Woodlake | 418 | 91.6% | 30.7% |
| Frank Sparkes Elementary Winton | 422 | 92.7% | 60.7% |
| Felicita Elementary Escondido | 478 | 91.6% | 22.1% |
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 T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Cruz County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 7.4% | #5,134 of 5,151 | #36 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.9% | #5,147 of 5,172 ▲ 9 | #36 of 36 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 8.7% | #5,156 of 5,172 ▼ 26 | #36 of 36 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.2pp | #917 of 5,116 | #5 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 438 | #3,181 of 5,915 | #14 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.0:1 | #2,205 of 5,352 | #15 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #4,637 of 5,354 | #23 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.9% | #713 of 5,625 | #5 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.8% | #707 of 3,837 | #8 of 30 |
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
438
-97 (-18%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 659
Student : Teacher
22.0:1
was 21.4:1
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 | 438 | 19.9 | 22.0:1 | 93% (407) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 19.1 | 22.2:1 | 91% (386) |
| 2022-23 | 421 | 19 | 22.2:1 | 89% (376) |
| 2020-21 | 535 | 25 | 21.4:1 | 92% (490) |
| 2017-18 | 607 | 26 | 23.4:1 | 84% (510) |
| 2015-16 | 644 | 26 | 24.8:1 | 93% (596) |
| 2010-11 | 655 | N/A | N/A | 90% (591) |
| 2000-01 | 796 | 43 | 18.5:1 | 75% (594) |
| 1990-91 | 659 | 28 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (607 to 438); teachers down 23% (26 to 19.9).
About T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary sits in Watsonville, California, and is classified as an elementary school. It has an enrollment of 438 students in kindergarten through 5.
Pajaro Valley Unified serves 16,482 students across 33 schools.
A large majority of enrollment at T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary is Hispanic, at 91%. The rest of enrollment is 6% White and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Santa Cruz County, the Hispanic share is about 35%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 16%.
The school has 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 22.0 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in California is similar, at 22.3:1. Of all students at T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary, 93% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Santa Cruz County report 52%.
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of California public elementary schools.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary scores 17.7 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 7.4%; the prediction is 25.1%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Santa Cruz County show that median household income comes to about $111,093, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 44% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Santa Cruz County counts 83 public schools with about 36,316 students.
Ann Soldo Elementary sits about 0.4 miles from T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary. T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 438, from 535 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Santa Cruz County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
264,926
Census ACS
Median income
$111,093
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,316 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pajaro Valley Unified
- Watsonville HighHigh · 2,215 students
- Pajaro Valley HighHigh · 1,293 students
- Aptos HighHigh · 1,274 students
- Alianza CharterElementary · 626 students
- Rolling Hills MiddleMiddle · 588 students
- Aptos Junior HighMiddle · 587 students
Other schools in Watsonville
- Watsonville HighHigh · 2,215 students
- Pajaro Valley HighHigh · 1,293 students
- Alianza CharterElementary · 626 students
- Rolling Hills MiddleMiddle · 588 students
- Cesar E. Chavez MiddleMiddle · 548 students
- Bradley ElementaryElementary · 520 students
Nearby schools
- Ann Soldo Elementary0.4 mi · 377
- Mintie White Elementary0.5 mi · 493
- E. A. Hall Middle0.5 mi · 491
- H. A. Hyde Elementary0.9 mi · 476
- PVUSD Virtual Academy1.0 mi · 43
- Watsonville High1.0 mi · 2,215
Frequently asked questions
About T. S. MacQuiddy ElementaryHow large is T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary?
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary enrolls approximately 438 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary serve?
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary have?
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary?
At T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary, the student body is approximately 6% White, 91% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary?
T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary is overseen by Pajaro Valley Unified in Santa Cruz County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.