Willow Elementary

Willow Elementary is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in Napa, California, overseen by Napa Valley Unified, enrolling 472 students in grades K through 5.

Willow Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Napa Valley Unified, a district that instructs 16,077 students overall.

On demographics, Willow Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 41% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Napa County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willow Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Napa County put the typical household earns roughly $111,471 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Napa County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,557 students), of which Willow Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Vintage High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Willow Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Willow Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.4%.

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

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Willow Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.