Taft Elementary

Taft Elementary operates as a mid-sized primary school in Stockton, California, overseen by Stockton Unified. Current enrollment sits at 449 students spanning grades K through 8.

Stockton Unified comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,590 students; Taft Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Taft Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 11% Asian, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Taft Elementary lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Taft Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Taft Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,179, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Taft Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McKinley Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Taft Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Taft Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 17.8%.

Taft Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Taft Elementary's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 498 (now 449). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 30.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.

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