Indianola Elementary

Indianola Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Selma, California, operated by Selma Unified. Current enrollment sits at 420 students spanning grades K through 6.

Selma Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 5,911 students; Indianola Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Indianola Elementary logs that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 6% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indianola Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fresno County put the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Indianola Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Abraham Lincoln Middle, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Indianola Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Indianola Elementary operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Indianola Elementary has decreased 17%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025.

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