Public school / Other
Gould Educational Center
Madera, California
- NCES ID
- 069101707126
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Gould Educational Center is a public other school in Madera, California, run by Madera County Superintendent of Schools. It enrols 356 students — the 57585th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
356
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
8.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Madera County Superintendent of Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Gould Educational Center356 students
- 2Pioneer Technical Center243 students
- 3Madera County Independent Academy48 students
- 4Juvenile Hall (Endeavor/Voyager Secondary)16 students
- Enrollment−24.9%
- Teachers+109.5%
- Students per teacher−63.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+11.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory