Vineland Elementary

Vineland Elementary, a close-knit elementary school in Bakersfield, California, run under Vineland Elementary, teaches 336 students, covering grades K through 4. That puts it 28% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Vineland Elementary comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 638 students; Vineland Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Vineland Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Vineland Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Vineland Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.9%; this one delivers 16.6%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kern County put median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Vineland Elementary is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

The closest other public school is Sunset, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vineland Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vineland Elementary has edged down 17%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 336 in 2025.

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