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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Potrero Elementary

Potrero, California

NCES ID
062610003909
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Potrero Elementary is a public primary school in Potrero, California, run by Mountain Empire Unified. It enrols 319 students — the 62949th 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

319students

62949th nationally, tied with 129

Teachers

13.0FTE

78940th nationally, tied with 1,474

Students per teacher

24.5students

88968th nationally, tied with 138

Free or reduced-price lunch

72.7%percent

28406th nationally, tied with 136

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 Mountain Empire 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Mountain Empire High433 students
  2. 2Campo Elementary374 students
  3. 3Potrero Elementary319 students
  4. 4Descanso Elementary200 students
  5. 5Clover Flat Elementary187 students
  6. 6Pine Valley Middle154 students
  7. 7Camp Lockett Middle114 students
  8. 8Hillside Junior/Senior High29 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−32.7%
  • Teachers−38.1%
  • Students per teacher+10.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+7.1%
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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.