Woodland Prairie Elementary

Set in Woodland, California, Woodland Prairie Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community, operated by Woodland Joint Unified. It educates 713 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 53% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Woodland Prairie Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Woodland Joint Unified, a district that caters to 9,304 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Woodland Prairie Elementary reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 9% Asian, 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Yolo County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Woodland Prairie Elementary reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Yolo County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodland Prairie Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.7%; this one delivers 23.6%.

Around the school, Yolo County reports that median household income runs about $91,752, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Yolo County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), of which Woodland Prairie Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pioneer High, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodland Prairie Elementary. On composite proficiency, Woodland Prairie Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

Woodland Prairie Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 761 students in 2018 compared to 713 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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