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Richland Union Elementary

Shafter, California · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,410
Students enrolled
4
Public schools
136
Classroom teachers (FTE)
17.7:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 303
  • Grade 1 230
  • Grade 2 251
  • Grade 3 239
  • Grade 4 268
  • Grade 5 265
  • Grade 6 296
  • Grade 7 265
  • Grade 8 293

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 93%
  • White 4%
  • Asian 1%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 2,182 of 2,410 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 83%
  • Reduced-price lunch 7%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$22,540 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $12,673
  • Support services $8,426
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,441

Where the money comes from

  • Local 12%
  • State 69%
  • Federal 20%

Total revenue $65.7 milliontotal spending $63.3 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 08

Locale (NCES)

Town: FringeStudents: 78% town, 22% rural

Total staff (FTE)

388

District office

300 North Valley, Shafter CA 93263

County

Kern County

Official website

NCES District ID

621450

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About Richland Union Elementary

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Richland School District adheres to the premise that all children can learn. The District's mission is to be consistent in empowering all schools at all grade levels in nurturing the mental, physical, social and emotional growth of all students by bringing about excellence through planned instruction, based on a CORE of knowledge in which all children should learn, that promotes a positive self, academic success, and a social consciousness that will lead toward productive citizenship.
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