Ericson Elementary

Ericson Elementary, a high-enrollment K-5 school in Fresno, California, one of the schools within Fresno Unified, enrolls 722 students, covering grades K through 6. That puts it 55% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Ericson Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder reads as 23% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Ericson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ericson Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) shows that median household income runs about $74,201, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Ericson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Norseman Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ericson Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 28.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Ericson Elementary's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 701 (now 722). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 18% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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