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Public school / Primary

James A. Forrest Elementary

Wasco, California

NCES ID
064140014394
District
Wasco Union Elementary
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

James A. Forrest Elementary is a public primary school in Wasco, California, run by Wasco Union Elementary. It enrols 571 students — the 29453rd largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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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

571students

29453rd nationally, tied with 94

Teachers

27.0FTE

48484th nationally, tied with 2,306

Students per teacher

21.1students

81947th nationally, tied with 255

Free or reduced-price lunch

90.5%percent

13245th nationally, tied with 111

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.

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Within Wasco Union Elementary

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1John L. Prueitt Elementary642 students
  2. 2Palm Avenue Middle601 students
  3. 3James A. Forrest Elementary571 students
  4. 4Karl F. Clemens Elementary546 students
  5. 5Thomas Jefferson Middle532 students
  6. 6Teresa Burke Elementary521 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+20.5%
  • Teachers+28.6%
  • Students per teacher−4.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+33.3%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.