Elbow Creek Elementary

Elbow Creek Elementary, a mid-tier elementary campus in Visalia, California, overseen by Visalia Unified, hosts 514 students, covering grades K through 6.

Across the 41 schools in Visalia Unified (28,725 students total), Elbow Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Elbow Creek Elementary logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 20% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Elbow Creek Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Elbow Creek Elementary qualify 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 south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Elbow Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.3%; this one delivers 37.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tulare County shows median household income runs about $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Elbow Creek Elementary is one.

Valley Oak Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elbow Creek Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 521 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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