Best Public Schools in Spreckels, CA

Summary:

Spreckels, California is home to a single elementary school, Spreckels Elementary, which serves grades K-5 with a total enrollment of 583 students. The school is part of the Spreckels Union Elementary School District, which is ranked in the top 27% of districts in California.

Spreckels Elementary appears to be a strong-performing school, consistently outpacing state averages on Smarter Balanced Assessments for English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics across grade levels. For example, the school's 5th-grade ELA proficiency rate was 60.82% compared to the state average of 47.37%. Spreckels Elementary also outperforms the state in the California Science Test (CAST), with a 5th-grade proficiency rate of 36.08% compared to the state's 32.68%.

While Spreckels Elementary has a slightly elevated chronic absenteeism rate of 13.6% compared to the state's target of 10% or less, the school's student-teacher ratio of 21.9 to 1 is only slightly higher than the recommended 20:1 ratio for elementary schools. Additionally, the school has a relatively low percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch at 16.64%, which is lower than the state average.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2024)				Ranking (2023)				CAST Science (2024)		Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2024)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2024)				% Completely Immunized (2022)	% Polio (2022)	% Varicella (2022)	% MMR (2022)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2018)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	SchoolDigger Rating (2024)	Average Standard Score (2023)	Statewide Rank (2023)	State Percentile (2023)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science End of Course	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy End of Course	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics End of Course	% Completely Immunized KG	% Polio KG	% Varicella KG	% MMR KG	Total
Spreckels Elementary	Public	K-5	Fourth St. and Hatton Ave.	Spreckels	93962	Monterey County	Spreckels Union Elementary	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(831) 455-1831	583	27	21.9	16.6%	262 (44.9%)	0 (0.0%)	242 (41.5%)	24 (4.1%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	54 (9.3%)	66.2	1762^nd of 5862 public elementary schools	69.9%		61.6	1982^nd of 5874 public elementary schools	66.3%	220	36.1	36.1	51.2	59.1	60.8	57.3	56.0	53.9	28.9	45.6	96.3	98.1	97.2	98.1	$5,457

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City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
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Marina	6.11 mi	8	630^th
Castroville	8.08 mi	4	778^th
Seaside	8.93 mi	13	627^th
Chualar	10.61 mi	1	505^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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