Hirayama Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Fresno, California, Hirayama Elementary works with 442 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Clovis Unified.

Across the 51 schools in Clovis Unified (43,611 students total), Hirayama Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hirayama Elementary shows that 42% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 37% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, Hirayama Elementary lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Hirayama Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hirayama Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of +12.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household income runs about $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Hirayama Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Temperance-Kutner Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hirayama Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hirayama Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Hirayama Elementary operates from an outlying location.

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