Public school / Other
Open Valley Independent Study
Patterson, California
- NCES ID
- 063003013962
- District
- Patterson Joint Unified
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Open Valley Independent Study is a public other school in Patterson, California, run by Patterson Joint Unified. It enrols 151 students — the 82724th 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
151
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
25.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
72.2%
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 Patterson Joint 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.
- 1Patterson High1,888 students
- 2Creekside Middle920 students
- 3Apricot Valley Elementary833 students
- 4Las Palmas Elementary669 students
- 5Walnut Grove Elementary666 students
- 6Northmead Elementary659 students
- 7Grayson Elementary266 students
- 8Open Valley Independent Study151 students
- Enrollment−68.1%
- Teachers−71.4%
- Students per teacher+14.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+6.3%
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