Great Western Elementary

Great Western Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus in Reedley, California, overseen by Kings Canyon Joint Unified. The school educates 309 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 34% leaner than typical.

Kings Canyon Joint Unified runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 9,696 students. Great Western Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Great Western Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). The remainder breaks down as 9% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Great Western Elementary lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Great Western Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Great Western Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.0%; Great Western Elementary posts 47.2%, +16.2 points above that line.

In the broader community, Fresno County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,201, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Great Western Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Thomas Law Reed Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Great Western Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Great Western Elementary's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 309). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Great Western Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.