Harvest Elementary

As a well-populated K-5 school in Fresno, California, Harvest Elementary works with 1,010 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Central Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 117% bigger than typical.

Central Unified runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 15,956 students. Harvest Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Harvest Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 31% Asian, 9% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 28.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Harvest Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harvest Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Harvest Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Nearest neighbor: Glacier Point Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Harvest Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harvest Elementary has edged up 40%, going from 724 students in 2018 to 1,010 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment grew from 19% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 28.9:1 in 2025.

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