Wilson Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary campus in Gridley, California, Wilson Elementary hosts 544 students from grades 2 through 5, overseen by Gridley Unified.

Across the 5 schools in Gridley Unified (2,001 students total), Wilson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Wilson Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder looks like 33% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Butte County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Wilson Elementary lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.7:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Butte County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, Wilson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +9.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Butte County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,928, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Butte County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students), Wilson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Esperanza High (Continuation), roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wilson Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Wilson Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 601 (now 544).

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