Vineyard Elementary

Vineyard Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Templeton, California, run under Templeton Unified. The school enrolls 426 students in grades 3 through 5.

Templeton Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,214 students. Vineyard Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Vineyard Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 64%. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Vineyard Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than San Luis Obispo County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Vineyard Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 67.6%; actual is 48.5%, a gap of -19.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) logs that median household income runs about $97,446, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, San Luis Obispo County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), of which Vineyard Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Templeton High, around 1.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vineyard Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Vineyard Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 514 (now 426). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 70% to 64% over that span.

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