Fremont Elementary

As a mid-tier primary school in Delano, California, Fremont Elementary hosts 440 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Delano Union Elementary.

Across the 12 schools in Delano Union Elementary (6,185 students total), Fremont Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fremont Elementary lists that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Fremont Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fremont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kern County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Fremont Elementary is one.

Almond Tree Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fremont Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fremont Elementary's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 440). Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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