Wilson Elementary

Wilson Elementary operates as a tight-knit elementary-level community in Modesto, California, part of Modesto City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 283 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Wilson Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Modesto City Elementary, a district that caters to 14,444 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wilson Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school logs 17% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 50% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Wilson Elementary reports 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at Wilson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Stanislaus County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wilson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the area at large, Stanislaus County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Wilson Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

La Loma Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wilson Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

Wilson Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilson Elementary has ticked up 4%, going from 272 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 62% to 74% across the same window.

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