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How has Columbia Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
568
Elementary
DISTRICT 553 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRESNO UNIFIED·NCES 061455001716
Columbia Elementary
1025 South Trinity St., Fresno, CA 93706 · (559) 457-2630 · Fresno County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
551 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 117 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 44% larger than its 6th grade class (81).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
21.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.6pp since 2014
Math
17.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +10.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.1% | 15.5% | 19.0% | 59.4% |
| Math | 4.2% | 13.2% | 21.9% | 60.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.6% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 17.2% | 18.2% |
| 2022-23 | 18.5% | 15.6% |
| 2021-22 | 21.6% | 15.8% |
| 2018-19 | 27.5% | 20.3% |
| 2017-18 | 19.2% | 16.6% |
| 2016-17 | 14.4% | 13.3% |
| 2015-16 | 9.0% | 7.0% |
| 2014-15 | 12.0% | 7.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
18.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Columbia Elementary
Columbia Elementary's state test result (18.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Elementary this school | 568 | 97.0% | 18.8% |
| Lincoln Elementary Fresno | 526 | 97.3% | 32.8% |
| One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary Gardena | 554 | 96.0% | 34.9% |
| Bing Wong Elementary San Bernardino | 581 | 95.9% | 19.3% |
| One Hundred Twenty-Second Street Elementary Los Angeles | 574 | 96.0% | 44.0% |
| Heaton Elementary Fresno | 515 | 95.0% | 12.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Columbia Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Fresno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #4,676 of 5,151 | #177 of 185 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #4,537 of 5,172 ▼ 168 | #171 of 185 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #4,751 of 5,172 ▲ 169 | #176 of 185 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #3,073 of 5,116 | #144 of 182 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #1,672 of 5,915 | #87 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #1,143 of 5,352 | #72 of 190 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #3,465 of 5,354 | #111 of 190 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.0% | #203 of 5,625 | #15 of 199 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #2,892 of 3,837 | #100 of 135 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
568
+44 (+8%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 503
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 47.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 568 | 27.8 | 20.4:1 | 97% (551) |
| 2023-24 | 542 | 25.5 | 21.3:1 | 99% (536) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 23.3 | 23.3:1 | 98% (533) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 11 | 47.6:1 | 98% (511) |
| 2017-18 | 620 | 27 | 23.0:1 | 98% (609) |
| 2015-16 | 631 | 24 | 26.3:1 | 97% (609) |
| 2010-11 | 570 | N/A | N/A | 98% (559) |
| 2000-01 | 549 | 25 | 22.0:1 | 99% (546) |
| 1990-91 | 503 | 21 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Columbia Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (620 to 568); teachers up 3% (27 to 27.8).
About Columbia Elementary
Columbia Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Fresno, California. The school's 568 students are in kindergarten through 6. Enrollment is 22% higher than the average for elementary schools in California, which is about 465.
Fresno Unified runs 100 schools with a combined 67,873 students. Columbia Elementary is one of them.
Roughly 76% of students at Columbia Elementary are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 13% Black, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial, and 2% White. Fresno County's residents are about 55% Hispanic, 22 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 40%, meaning two students picked at random have a 40% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 27.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Columbia Elementary and a ratio of 20.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 97% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Fresno County averages 75%, lower than here.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Columbia Elementary receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Columbia Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 18.8%, compared with a predicted 22.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Columbia Elementary is located in Fresno County, where the median household income is $74,201, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 14%. Besides Columbia Elementary, Fresno County has 367 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Columbia Elementary to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to Big Picture Educational Academy. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.
The NCES locale for Columbia Elementary is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 568 students in 2024-25, 44 more than the 524 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 47.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 20.4:1.
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Fresno County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,016,725
Census ACS
Median income
$74,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
368
206,072 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fresno Unified
- Sunnyside HighHigh · 2,858 students
- Bullard HighHigh · 2,485 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,339 students
- Roosevelt HighHigh · 2,175 students
- McLane HighHigh · 2,056 students
- Herbert Hoover HighHigh · 2,040 students
Other schools in Fresno
- Yosemite Valley CharterCombined · 3,065 students
- Sunnyside HighHigh · 2,858 students
- Bullard HighHigh · 2,485 students
- Clovis North HighHigh · 2,360 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,339 students
- Clovis West HighHigh · 2,184 students
Other Columbia Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Columbia Elementary. Columbia Elementary is the 8th largest of the 25.
- Columbia ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 706 students
- Columbia ElementaryPerris, CA · 704 students
- Columbia ElementaryLancaster, CA · 620 students
- Columbia ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 601 students
- Columbia ElementaryColumbia, CA · 464 students
Nearby schools
- Big Picture Educational Academy0.2 mi · 520
- Ambassador Phillip V. Sanchez II Public Charter0.4 mi · 261
- Edison-Bethune Charter Academy0.7 mi · 368
- Kepler Neighborhood0.8 mi · 301
- Edison High0.9 mi · 2,339
- Lincoln Elementary0.9 mi · 526
Frequently asked questions
About Columbia ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Columbia Elementary?
Columbia Elementary enrolls approximately 568 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Columbia Elementary serve?
Columbia Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Columbia Elementary?
Approximately 20.4:1 students per teacher at Columbia Elementary.
How diverse is Columbia Elementary?
Columbia Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 76% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Columbia Elementary?
Columbia Elementary is overseen by Fresno Unified in Fresno County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.