Valley Springs Elementary

Valley Springs Elementary, a close-knit elementary-level community in Valley Springs, California, one of the schools within Calaveras Unified, caters to 383 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Calaveras Unified, which oversees 9 schools and 2,841 students, Valley Springs Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Valley Springs Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Valley Springs Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Valley Springs Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.5%; Valley Springs Elementary posts 25.2%, -19.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Calaveras County put the typical household earns roughly $78,647 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Calaveras County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,261 students), of which Valley Springs Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jenny Lind Elementary, around 4.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Valley Springs Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 20.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Valley Springs Elementary's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 383). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

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