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If you had an hour of school board time for Tolenas Academy of Music and Media, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
316
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED·NCES 061336001530
Tolenas Elementary
4500 Tolenas Rd., Fairfield, CA 94533 · (707) 421-4350 · Solano County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL316 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% 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.
- BThree-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
21.8:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
265 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 65%
Community
2
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 | 60 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
21.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.8pp since 2014
Math
13.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 4.5% | 17.3% | 18.6% | 59.6% |
| Math | 5.0% | 8.1% | 27.5% | 59.4% |
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 | 21.8% | 13.1% |
| 2023-24 | 12.4% | 6.2% |
| 2022-23 | 15.0% | 7.9% |
| 2021-22 | 17.3% | 10.8% |
| 2018-19 | 21.1% | 21.2% |
| 2017-18 | 22.9% | 15.2% |
| 2016-17 | 22.0% | 17.5% |
| 2015-16 | 21.0% | 13.0% |
| 2014-15 | 19.0% | 14.0% |
% 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
12.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% 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 Tolenas Elementary
Tolenas Elementary's state test result (12.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tolenas Elementary this school | 316 | 83.9% | 12.3% |
| Aloha Elementary Lakewood | 302 | 88.1% | 38.8% |
| Freese Elementary San Diego | 280 | 82.1% | 35.7% |
| Loma Vista Environmental Science Academy Vallejo | 365 | 78.4% | 16.9% |
| Pendleton Elementary San Diego | 352 | 77.3% | 33.7% |
| Hagginwood Elementary Sacramento | 340 | 90.3% | 24.2% |
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 Tolenas Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Solano County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.3% | #5,055 of 5,151 | #53 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #4,893 of 5,172 ▲ 240 | #46 of 55 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #4,738 of 5,172 ▲ 357 | #45 of 55 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.4pp | #2,149 of 5,116 | #14 of 55 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 316 | #4,626 of 5,915 | #57 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #2,023 of 5,352 | #11 of 58 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #1,022 of 5,354 | #31 of 58 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.9% | #1,782 of 5,625 | #8 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #1,330 of 3,837 | #13 of 34 |
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
316
-250 (-44%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 447
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
was 25.7:1
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 | 316 | 14.5 | 21.8:1 | 84% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 535 | 22 | 24.3:1 | 72% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 583 | 25 | 23.3:1 | 61% (355) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 22 | 25.7:1 | 74% (418) |
| 2017-18 | 399 | 16.5 | 24.2:1 | 82% (327) |
| 2015-16 | 608 | 24 | 25.3:1 | 77% (469) |
| 2010-11 | 758 | N/A | N/A | 61% (466) |
| 2000-01 | 612 | 28 | 21.9:1 | 30% (185) |
| 1990-91 | 447 | 21 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tolenas Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (399 to 316); teachers down 12% (16.5 to 14.5).
About Tolenas Elementary
Tolenas Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school for students in Fairfield, California. The school counts 316 students across kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in California is about 465 students.
Fairfield-Suisun Unified has 31 schools and 20,505 students, and Tolenas Elementary is one of those schools.
At 52%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Tolenas Elementary combined. Other students are 16% Black, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian, and 7% White. By comparison, Solano County residents are about 30% Hispanic. Tolenas Elementary has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Tolenas Elementary counts 14.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 21.8 students for each one. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. About 84% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. On average, public schools in Solano County report 60%.
Tolenas Elementary is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Tolenas Elementary would score about 30.4%. It scores 12.3%, a bottom-10% result among California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Solano County, median household income is about $100,401, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The public schools of Solano County number 110 and enroll about 60,765.
Dan O. Root Elementary is the public school closest to Tolenas Elementary, about 0.8 miles away. Tolenas Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Tolenas Elementary ranks 6th of 6 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 12.3% against a local average of 23.0%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment records show 566 in 2020-21 and 316 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 25.7:1 to 21.8:1.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Solano County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
451,918
Census ACS
Median income
$100,401
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
60,765 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfield-Suisun Unified
- Angelo Rodriguez HighHigh · 2,111 students
- Armijo HighHigh · 1,844 students
- Fairfield HighHigh · 1,605 students
- Grange MiddleMiddle · 944 students
- Green Valley MiddleMiddle · 903 students
- Crystal MiddleMiddle · 774 students
Other schools in Fairfield
- Angelo Rodriguez HighHigh · 2,111 students
- Armijo HighHigh · 1,844 students
- Vanden HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Fairfield HighHigh · 1,605 students
- Grange MiddleMiddle · 944 students
- Green Valley MiddleMiddle · 903 students
Nearby schools
- Dan O. Root Elementary0.8 mi · 426
- Solano County Special Education0.9 mi · 368
- Solano County Community0.9 mi · 79
- H. Glenn Richardson1.0 mi · 25
- Grange Middle1.0 mi · 944
- Suisun Elementary1.2 mi · 512
Frequently asked questions
About Tolenas ElementaryHow large is Tolenas Elementary?
Tolenas Elementary enrolls approximately 316 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Tolenas Elementary serve?
Tolenas Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tolenas Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tolenas Elementary is approximately 21.8:1 (15 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Tolenas Elementary?
Student demographics at Tolenas Elementary are roughly 7% White, 52% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Tolenas Elementary in?
Tolenas Elementary is part of Fairfield-Suisun Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.