Calwa Elementary

Located at 4303 East Jensen Ave., in Fresno, California, Calwa Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that teaches 568 students (grades K through 6), operated by Fresno Unified. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Fresno Unified comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 67,873 students; Calwa Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Calwa Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Calwa Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Calwa 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Calwa Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 23.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate 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 Calwa Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Aynesworth Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Calwa Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 26.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 681 students in 2018 compared to 568 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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