Huron Elementary

Huron Elementary is a K-5 school of expansive scale in Huron, California, run under Coalinga-Huron Unified, educateing 723 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Coalinga-Huron Unified runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,406 students. Huron Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Huron Elementary logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Huron Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Huron Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.5%, the actual is 13.8%, a residual of -11.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fresno County put median household income runs about $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Huron Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Chesnut High (Continuation) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Huron Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 845 students in 2018 compared to 723 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.