Berenda Elementary

Berenda Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Madera, California, overseen by Madera Unified, with 709 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 52% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Berenda Elementary is one of 28 schools operated by Madera Unified, a district that hosts 19,922 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Berenda Elementary shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 61% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Berenda Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at Berenda Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berenda Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.8%; this one delivers 30.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Madera County) logs that median household income runs about $76,627, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Madera County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students), of which Berenda Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Nishimoto Elementary, roughly 2.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Berenda Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 809 students in 2018 compared to 709 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 13% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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