Winfield Elementary

Winfield Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Winton, California, one of the schools within Winton. Current enrollment sits at 444 students spanning grades K through 5.

Winton comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,807 students; Winfield Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Winfield Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 5% White, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Merced County runs at roughly 81%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Winfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.3%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Across the wider county, Merced County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,510 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Merced County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), Winfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sybil N. Crookham Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Winfield Elementary. On composite proficiency, Winfield Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

Winfield Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 83% to 91% over that span.

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