Jefferson Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Clovis, California, Jefferson Elementary instructs 556 students from grades K through 6, part of Clovis Unified.

Clovis Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 43,611 students. Jefferson Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jefferson Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 25% White, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Jefferson Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Jefferson Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Jefferson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.8%; this one delivers 52.0%.

In the area at large, Fresno County reports that 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%. Jefferson Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Nearest neighbor: Clovis High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Elementary. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 556 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 32% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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