Public school / Primary
Mercey Springs Elementary
Los Banos, California
- NCES ID
- 062274013433
- District
- Los Banos Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mercey Springs Elementary is a public primary school in Los Banos, California, run by Los Banos Unified. It enrols 651 students — the 22572nd 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
651
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
29.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
81.9%
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 Los Banos Unified
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.
- 1Pacheco High1,799 students
- 2Los Banos High1,617 students
- 3Grasslands Elementary892 students
- 4Los Banos Junior High862 students
- 5Creekside Junior High817 students
- 6R. M. Miano Elementary803 students
- 7Lorena Falasco Elementary727 students
- 8Henry Miller Elementary712 students
- Enrollment+37.3%
- Teachers+4.8%
- Students per teacher+33.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.6%
Where this sits
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