Walter White Elementary

Walter White Elementary is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Ceres, California, one of the schools within Ceres Unified, educateing 526 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 23 schools in Ceres Unified (13,665 students total), Walter White Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Walter White Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder is composed of 10% White, 5% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Walter White Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Stanislaus County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Walter White Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.2%; this one delivers 13.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Stanislaus County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Walter White Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Ceres Special Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Walter White Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Walter White Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 526). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 16% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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