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Enrollment
1,056
Elementary
DISTRICT 787 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANTECA UNIFIED·NCES 062361011419
Walter Woodward Elementary
575 Tannehill Dr., Manteca, CA 95337 · (209) 858-7430 · San Joaquin County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,056 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of California public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
617 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 129 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 122 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 112 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 120 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 135 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (135).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
40.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.5pp since 2014
Math
28.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.8% | 26.7% | 26.6% | 32.9% |
| Math | 9.9% | 18.5% | 28.5% | 43.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.5% | 28.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 29.6% |
| 2022-23 | 39.7% | 32.0% |
| 2021-22 | 41.6% | 30.8% |
| 2018-19 | 51.6% | 36.3% |
| 2017-18 | 46.6% | 32.2% |
| 2016-17 | 42.0% | 25.0% |
| 2015-16 | 38.0% | 24.0% |
| 2014-15 | 33.0% | 24.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Walter Woodward Elementary
Walter Woodward Elementary's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Woodward Elementary this school | 1,056 | 58.4% | 34.8% |
| Ronald Reagan Elementary Eastvale | 1,063 | 60.7% | 58.3% |
| Mossdale Elementary Lathrop | 1,087 | 59.6% | 36.2% |
| Joseph Widmer Jr. Elementary Lathrop | 923 | 64.4% | 24.7% |
| Harada Elementary Eastvale | 1,056 | 65.6% | 54.0% |
| George Kelly Elementary Tracy | 929 | 61.4% | 46.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Walter Woodward Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Joaquin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #2,980 of 5,151 | #47 of 138 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #3,380 of 5,172 ▼ 245 | #53 of 138 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #2,878 of 5,172 ▼ 276 | #45 of 138 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.8pp | #1,273 of 5,116 | #37 of 136 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,056 | #50 of 5,915 | #5 of 159 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.8:1 | #4,284 of 5,352 | #109 of 149 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #460 of 5,354 | #9 of 149 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.4% | #3,549 of 5,625 | #122 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +27.8% | #145 of 1,139 | #4 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,056
+208 (+25%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 1,003
Student : Teacher
24.8:1
was 23.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,056 | 42.7 | 24.8:1 | 58% (617) |
| 2023-24 | 998 | 42 | 23.8:1 | 53% (524) |
| 2022-23 | 935 | 38.9 | 24.0:1 | 37% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 848 | 36 | 23.6:1 | 46% (389) |
| 2017-18 | 826 | 32.6 | 25.4:1 | 39% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 880 | 32 | 27.5:1 | 35% (305) |
| 2010-11 | 1,003 | N/A | N/A | 32% (325) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walter Woodward Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (826 to 1,056); teachers up 31% (32.6 to 42.7).
About Walter Woodward Elementary
Walter Woodward Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Manteca, California. The school enrolls 1,056 students in kindergarten through 8. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 127% larger than average.
Manteca Unified includes 30 schools. Together they enroll 25,347 students.
Of every 100 students at Walter Woodward Elementary, about 42 are Hispanic, the largest group. Other students are 27% Asian, 18% White, 6% Black, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put San Joaquin County at about 43% Hispanic, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 71%.
Its staff includes 42.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 24.8 students per teacher. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 2.4 students per teacher. Roughly 58% of students at Walter Woodward Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
Walter Woodward Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 22% of California public elementary schools.
Walter Woodward Elementary is 10.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (34.8% versus 45.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
The school is in San Joaquin County, where the median household earns about $92,179 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across San Joaquin County, 251 public schools serve about 153,026 students.
Walter Woodward Elementary is about 1.3 miles from Veritas Elementary, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Walter Woodward Elementary is 4th of 7 on proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Walter Woodward Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000 (Suburb: Small).
Federal enrollment counts rose from 848 (2020-21) to 1,056 (2024-25). There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (24.8:1) than in 2020-21 (23.6:1).
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San Joaquin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
797,334
Census ACS
Median income
$92,179
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
251
153,026 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Manteca Unified
- Manteca HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Sierra HighHigh · 1,670 students
- East Union HighHigh · 1,524 students
- Lathrop HighHigh · 1,486 students
- Veritas ElementaryElementary · 1,266 students
- Nile Garden ElementaryElementary · 1,221 students
Other schools in Manteca
- Manteca HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Sierra HighHigh · 1,670 students
- East Union HighHigh · 1,524 students
- Veritas ElementaryElementary · 1,266 students
- Nile Garden ElementaryElementary · 1,221 students
- George McParland ElementaryElementary · 1,195 students
Nearby schools
- Veritas Elementary1.3 mi · 1,266
- Sequoia Elementary1.7 mi · 814
- Manteca High1.8 mi · 1,907
- Lincoln Elementary1.8 mi · 736
- Nile Garden Elementary2.0 mi · 1,221
- Brock Elliott Elementary2.0 mi · 758
Frequently asked questions
About Walter Woodward ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Walter Woodward Elementary?
Walter Woodward Elementary enrolls approximately 1,056 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Walter Woodward Elementary serve?
Walter Woodward Elementary serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Walter Woodward Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Walter Woodward Elementary is approximately 24.8:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Walter Woodward Elementary?
At Walter Woodward Elementary, the student body is approximately 18% White, 42% Hispanic, 6% Black, 27% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Walter Woodward Elementary public or private?
Walter Woodward Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Manteca Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.