Valentine Peyton Elementary

Valentine Peyton Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Stockton, California, run under Stockton Unified, with 787 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 69% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On demographics, Valentine Peyton Elementary lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 41% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% White. That composition is broadly in line with San Joaquin County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Valentine Peyton Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valentine Peyton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Valentine Peyton Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

George W. Bush Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valentine Peyton Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.1%.

Valentine Peyton Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Valentine Peyton Elementary has contracted 9%, going from 861 students in 2018 to 787 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment increased from 36% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 in 2025.

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