Fairview Elementary

Fairview Elementary is a primary school of high-enrollment scale in Modesto, California, part of Modesto City Elementary, educateing 786 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Fairview Elementary sits 69% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in Modesto City Elementary (14,444 students total), Fairview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Fairview Elementary shows that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Fairview Elementary reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fairview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.5%, the actual is 18.3%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Stanislaus County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Fairview Elementary is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Bret Harte Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairview Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 20.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Fairview Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 772 (now 786). Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 89% across the same window.

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