Big Creek Elementary

Located at 55190 Point Rd., in Big Creek, California, Big Creek Elementary is a rural-scale elementary-level community that educates 21 students (grades K through 8), part of Big Creek Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Big Creek Elementary sits 95% leaner than that benchmark.

Big Creek Elementary is the operating authority for Big Creek Elementary, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Big Creek Elementary shows that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% White, 5% multiracial. Compared to Fresno County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Big Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding 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%. Big Creek Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Pine Ridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 11.9 miles from this campus.

Big Creek Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Big Creek Elementary has fell 64%, going from 59 students in 2018 to 21 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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