Akira Yokomi Elementary

Akira Yokomi Elementary is a sprawling K-5 school in Fresno, California, operated by Fresno Unified. The school enrolls 700 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 51% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Fresno Unified runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 67,873 students. Akira Yokomi Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Akira Yokomi Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% White, 5% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, On paper, Akira Yokomi Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Akira Yokomi Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

After controlling for student poverty, Akira Yokomi Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.4%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fresno County put median household income runs about $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Akira Yokomi Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Jefferson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Akira Yokomi Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Akira Yokomi Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 30.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 795 students in 2018 compared to 700 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 82% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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