Buena Vista Elementary

As a rural-scale K-5 school in Tulare, California, Buena Vista Elementary instructs 180 students from grades K through 8, operated by Buena Vista Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Buena Vista Elementary sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

Buena Vista Elementary sits inside Buena Vista Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Buena Vista Elementary records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 26% White.

On the resource side, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Buena Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tulare County shows median household earnings sit near $71,300, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Buena Vista Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Valley Elementary, around 3.7 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Buena Vista Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 26.5%.

Buena Vista Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buena Vista Elementary has edged down 15%, going from 212 students in 2018 to 180 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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