Burroughs Elementary

Burroughs Elementary is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Fresno, California, operated by Fresno Unified, enrolling 674 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Burroughs Elementary sits 45% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Burroughs Elementary records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Asian. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Burroughs Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, Burroughs Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.3%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of +11.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Burroughs Elementary is one.

Mario G. Olmos Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Burroughs Elementary. On composite proficiency, Burroughs Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Burroughs Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 674 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Burroughs Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.