Westport Elementary

Westport Elementary is one of the modestly sized primary schools in Modesto, California, run under Ceres Unified, with 364 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Westport Elementary sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Ceres Unified comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 13,665 students; Westport Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Westport Elementary logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 9% White, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Stanislaus County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westport Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate median household income runs about $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Westport Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Fairview Elementary, roughly 2.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westport Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westport Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 23.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 438 students in 2018 compared to 364 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 1% to 5% across the same window.

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