Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary

Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Salinas, California, one of the schools within Alisal Union. Current enrollment sits at 526 students spanning grades K through 6.

Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Alisal Union, a district that works with 7,303 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary logs that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 62% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monterey County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monterey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monterey County's 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Frank Paul Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 23.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary has decreased 34%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 526 in 2025.

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