Williams Elementary

Williams Elementary, a mid-tier elementary-level community in Bakersfield, California, run under Bakersfield City, instructs 452 students, covering grades K through 6.

Williams Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Bakersfield City, a district that works with 28,365 students overall.

Demographically, Williams Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Williams Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Kern County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Williams Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.6%, the actual is 10.2%, a residual of -10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kern County shows median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Williams Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is East Bakersfield High, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Williams Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 452 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 85% to 91%. Class-load math has fell: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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