Public school / Primary
Neal Dow Elementary
Chico, California
- NCES ID
- 060837000823
- District
- Chico Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Neal Dow Elementary is a public primary school in Chico, California, run by Chico Unified. It enrols 335 students — the 60633rd 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
335
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
17.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
68.7%
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 Chico 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.
- 1Chico High1,905 students
- 2Pleasant Valley High1,840 students
- 3Bidwell Junior High990 students
- 4Chico Junior High928 students
- 5Marsh (Harry M.) Junior High732 students
- 6Shasta Elementary646 students
- 7Marigold Elementary568 students
- 8Emma Wilson Elementary565 students
- Enrollment−29.3%
- Teachers−9.5%
- Students per teacher−20.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+1.2%
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