Tamarisk Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary campus in Palmdale, California, Tamarisk Elementary instructs 664 students from grades K through 5, run under Palmdale Elementary. That puts it 43% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Palmdale Elementary runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 17,941 students. Tamarisk Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Tamarisk Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 25% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tamarisk Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 14.3%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Tamarisk Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Space Aeronautics Gateway to Exploration Magnet Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tamarisk Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 17.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Tamarisk Elementary's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 777 (now 664). Hispanic enrollment moved from 73% to 67% across the same window.

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