Alpine Vista

Alpine Vista is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Tulare, California, part of Tulare City, with 659 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Tulare City comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 9,289 students; Alpine Vista is among them.

Looking at the student body, Alpine Vista reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 22% White, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tulare County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Alpine Vista has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alpine Vista sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.0%; this one delivers 38.8%.

In the surrounding community, Tulare County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Alpine Vista is one.

The closest other public school is Alpine Vista Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alpine Vista. On composite proficiency, Alpine Vista comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 47%: 1,238 students in 2018 compared to 659 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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