Jefferson Elementary

Set in Lindsay, California, Jefferson Elementary is a cozy elementary campus, run under Lindsay Unified. It instructs 355 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 465.

Lindsay Unified runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 3,928 students. Jefferson Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jefferson Elementary reports that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Jefferson Elementary logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jefferson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.3%; this one delivers 28.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tulare County put median household earnings sit near $71,300, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Jefferson Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Washington Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Elementary. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

Jefferson Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Elementary has shrank 22%, going from 457 students in 2018 to 355 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 95% to 91%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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