Fremont Elementary

Located at 607 Texas St., in Bakersfield, California, Fremont Elementary is a substantial primary school that serves 707 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Bakersfield City. That puts it 52% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 44 schools in Bakersfield City (28,365 students total), Fremont Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Fremont Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fremont Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.9%; this one delivers 20.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kern County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Fremont Elementary is one.

Bessie E. Owens Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fremont Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 15.2%.

Fremont Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Fremont Elementary's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 860 (now 707). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 86% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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