Williams Upper Elementary

Set in Williams, California, Williams Upper Elementary is a small 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Williams Unified. It serves 289 students across grades 4 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 56% smaller than typical.

Williams Upper Elementary is one of 4 schools operated by Williams Unified, a district that works with 1,303 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Williams Upper Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Colusa County's rate of about 78%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Williams Upper Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 17.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Colusa County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,672, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Colusa County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,732 students), Williams Upper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Williams Junior/Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Williams Upper Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Williams Upper Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 26.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Williams Upper Elementary's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 321 (now 289).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Williams Upper Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.