About Atwater Elementary School District
Atwater Elementary School District is a public school system serving Merced County, California, based in Atwater. It serves 4,925 students across 11 schools spanning K–8, and is classified as a suburb: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #272 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Atwater Elementary School District enrolls 4,925 students in 11 schools — an average of about 448 students per school. It serves grades K–8 and ranks #272 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Atwater Elementary School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (4,925 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Atwater Elementary School District employs about 215 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 22.9:1 — above the California average of about 21.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 538.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Atwater Elementary School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Atwater Elementary School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Atwater Elementary School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Atwater Elementary School District vs. California
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Look up Atwater Elementary School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):