Hamilton Elementary

Hamilton Elementary operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in Fresno, California, run under Fresno Unified. Current enrollment sits at 811 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 74% above typical.

Hamilton Elementary is one of 100 schools operated by Fresno Unified, a district that educates 67,873 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Hamilton Elementary records that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 8% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Hamilton Elementary shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at Hamilton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hamilton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.4%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Hamilton Elementary is one.

Fresno High 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. On composite proficiency, Hamilton Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hamilton Elementary has fell 8%, going from 880 students in 2018 to 811 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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