Valley Home Elementary

Set in Valley Home, California, Valley Home Elementary is a small elementary-level community, part of Valley Home Joint Elementary. It hosts 191 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Valley Home Elementary sits 59% smaller than that benchmark.

Operationally, Valley Home Elementary answers to Valley Home Joint Elementary, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Valley Home Elementary reports that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Stanislaus County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Valley Home Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 59.2%; actual is 29.1%, a gap of -30.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Stanislaus County put the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Valley Home Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dent Elementary, around 4.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley Home Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Valley Home Elementary has expanded 14%, going from 167 students in 2018 to 191 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 4% to 57%. Class-load math has widened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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