Hazel Fischer Elementary

Hazel Fischer Elementary is an elementary-level community of micro-enrollment scale in Arnold, California, run under Vallecito Union, enrolling 172 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hazel Fischer Elementary sits 63% smaller than that benchmark.

Hazel Fischer Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Vallecito Union, a district that works with 597 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hazel Fischer Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hazel Fischer Elementary has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at Hazel Fischer Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Calaveras County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hazel Fischer Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Calaveras County shows median household income runs about $78,647, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Hazel Fischer Elementary is one of 23 public schools in Calaveras County (combined enrollment of about 5,261 students).

Nearest neighbor: Avery Middle, around 4.4 miles off. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hazel Fischer Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 157 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025.

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