A. L. Conner Elementary

A. L. Conner Elementary, a tight-knit elementary school in Orange Cove, California, operated by Kings Canyon Joint Unified, teaches 308 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Within Kings Canyon Joint Unified, which oversees 21 schools and 9,696 students, A. L. Conner Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, A. L. Conner Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 98% of students at A. L. Conner Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, A. L. Conner Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 21.3%; A. L. Conner Elementary posts 40.5%, +19.2 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Fresno County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. A. L. Conner Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

McCord Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A. L. Conner Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A. L. Conner Elementary has contracted 9%, going from 339 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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