Public school / Primary
Sierra Vista Elementary
Madera, California
- NCES ID
- 062334003553
- District
- Madera Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sierra Vista Elementary is a public primary school in Madera, California, run by Madera Unified. It enrols 700 students — the 19350th 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
700
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
20.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
94.7%
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 Madera 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.
- 1Matilda Torres High2,001 students
- 2Madera South High1,994 students
- 3Madera High1,858 students
- 4Thomas Jefferson Middle968 students
- 5Martin Luther King Jr. Middle919 students
- 6Lincoln Elementary855 students
- 7Jack G. Desmond Middle761 students
- 8Berenda Elementary752 students
- Enrollment+47.7%
- Teachers+66.7%
- Students per teacher−9.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+39.5%
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