Lockeford Elementary, Lockeford CA

Original Research by School Decision on Lockeford Elementary

Lockeford Elementary sits on North Tully Road at the edge of Lockeford, an unincorporated rural community in northeastern San Joaquin County. The school serves kindergarten through eighth grade, so it carries students through their entire pre-high-school years without a transition to a separate middle school campus. That continuity is a practical reality worth weighing for families deciding where to put down roots.

The community around the school is shaped by agriculture. Vineyards, orchards, and farm operations define the surrounding landscape, and many residents commute to Lodi or Stockton for work. Publicly reported sources describe Lockeford as a place where neighbors tend to know each other, most households own their homes, and the pace is slower than a suburban town. The school sits about as far from Lodi as you can get within the district's footprint. Car ownership is essentially required. A pending residential subdivision on the east side of North Tully Road, if it moves forward, could bring new families to the immediate area around the school over the coming years.

Housing in the Lockeford zip code trades well below the California statewide median, though still above the national median. Values have edged slightly lower over the past year. Rental data was not available for this zip code specifically. For buyers, the estimated monthly mortgage at current rates represents a real carrying cost, though the gap between owning and renting locally appears narrow in the data provided.

On academics, the picture requires candor. The most recent California state assessments show that across tested grades, fewer than a third of students reached proficiency in English language arts at any grade level, and math results were lower still, particularly in the early grades. Science proficiency, tested at fifth and eighth grade, was also low, with eighth-grade results especially thin. Placed against districts in San Joaquin County, the school's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile of the comparison set. These results are real and a parent considering the school should ask the school directly about what instructional supports are in place, how progress is tracked by grade, and what intervention resources are available for students who are not yet on track. Only a single year of state assessment data was available, so trend direction cannot be established from what was provided.

A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you something about the economic context of the student body. The school's enrollment is a moderate size for a K-8 campus. Hispanic and white students make up the large majority of enrollment, with smaller numbers of students identifying as two or more races and other groups. English learner counts and special education rates were not available in the data.

Because Lockeford Elementary stops at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. High school would be the next step, through Lodi Unified, which has publicly reported a recently passed facilities bond intended to fund new construction and campus upgrades across the district. The district is also moving to meet California's ethnic studies graduation requirement, which will affect students currently in the upper elementary and middle grades at Lockeford as they progress to high school.

Program details for the school itself were not available in what was provided. Information on extracurriculars, electives, counseling staffing, or specific academic interventions was not part of the data. A school of this size and setting in a rural community often operates with leaner program breadth than a larger suburban campus, but that is a generalization; a direct conversation with the school about what is offered would give a clearer picture than anything in this summary.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 314%

School 14% · District 35% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 416%

School 16% · District 34% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 26% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 32% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 721%

School 21% · District 30% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 26% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 318%

School 18% · District 32% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 416%

School 16% · District 34% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 38% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 41% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 42% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 816%

School 16% · District 36% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Science

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 22% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 86%

School 6% · District 21% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 51% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

This schoolLodi Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income16%Higher-income25%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income13%Higher-income23%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income23%Higher-income40%17 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income33%Higher-income29%5 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income15%Higher-income17%2 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income12%Higher-income19%7 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income13%Higher-income23%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income16%Higher-income47%30 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income19%Higher-income25%6 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income17%Higher-income22%5 pp gap