Crestwood Elementary

Set in Visalia, California, Crestwood Elementary is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within Visalia Unified. It hosts 594 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 28% larger than typical.

Visalia Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 28,725 students; Crestwood Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Crestwood Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder breaks down as 14% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Crestwood Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crestwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tulare County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Crestwood Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Nearest neighbor: Valley Life Charter, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Crestwood Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Crestwood Elementary's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 594). White enrollment moved from 20% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.