Harvest Elementary

Harvest Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Kerman, California, part of Kerman Unified, with 535 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Harvest Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Kerman Unified, a district that serves 5,272 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Harvest Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest looks like 6% White. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Harvest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Fresno County) shows that median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Harvest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kerman High, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harvest Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 34.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.