Public school / Primary
James A. Whitaker Elementary
Buena Park, California
- NCES ID
- 060636000560
- District
- Buena Park Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
James A. Whitaker Elementary is a public primary school in Buena Park, California, run by Buena Park Elementary. It enrols 639 students — the 23473rd 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
639
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
23.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.8%
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 Buena Park 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.
- 1Buena Park Middle705 students
- 2Charles G. Emery Elementary685 students
- 3James A. Whitaker Elementary639 students
- 4Gordon H. Beatty Middle609 students
- 5Carl E. Gilbert Elementary508 students
- 6Arthur F. Corey Elementary408 students
- 7Mabel L. Pendleton Elementary402 students
- Enrollment+34.8%
- Teachers+28.6%
- Students per teacher+7.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+32.3%
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