Terrace Elementary

Terrace Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in Delano, California, overseen by Delano Union Elementary, with 363 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Delano Union Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,185 students; Terrace Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Terrace Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest comes out to 9% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Terrace Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Terrace Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kern County put median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Terrace Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Princeton Street Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Terrace Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Terrace Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.6%.

Terrace Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Terrace Elementary's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 363). Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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