Hurley Elementary

Set in Visalia, California, Hurley Elementary is a mid-tier primary school, run under Visalia Unified. It works with 574 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hurley Elementary sits 23% above that benchmark.

Visalia Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 28,725 students; Hurley Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Hurley Elementary records that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 23% White, 12% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hurley Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hurley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Hurley Elementary is one.

Willow Glen 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 Hurley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hurley Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.6%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hurley Elementary has shrank 20%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 42% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 29.9:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Hurley Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.