Waverly Elementary

As a mid-sized primary school in Stockton, California, Waverly Elementary serves 438 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within Linden Unified.

Linden Unified comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,339 students; Waverly Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Waverly Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 24% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Waverly Elementary reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 75% of students at Waverly Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Joaquin County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Waverly Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 23.2%, a residual of -11.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Waverly Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Nearest neighbor: Glenwood Elementary, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Waverly Elementary. On composite proficiency, Waverly Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

Waverly Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 35%: 325 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 62% to 68%. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.