Yuba Feather Elementary

Yuba Feather Elementary operates as a tiny elementary campus in Challenge, California, operated by Marysville Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 96 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Yuba Feather Elementary sits 79% leaner than that benchmark.

Marysville Joint Unified runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 10,418 students. Yuba Feather Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Yuba Feather Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Yuba Feather Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Yuba Feather Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Yuba County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Yuba Feather Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Yuba County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,373, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Yuba Feather Elementary is one of 41 public schools in Yuba County (combined enrollment of about 16,045 students).

The closest other public school is Dobbins Elementary, roughly 7.6 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Yuba Feather Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

Yuba Feather Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Yuba Feather Elementary's enrollment has fell 27% since 2018, when it stood at 132 (now 96). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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