Jefferson Elementary

Jefferson Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Sanger, California, overseen by Sanger Unified, with 488 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Sanger Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,313 students. Jefferson Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Jefferson Elementary lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Jefferson Elementary records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Jefferson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jefferson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of +13.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fresno County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Jefferson Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

The closest other public school is Wilson Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jefferson Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Jefferson Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 19% since 2018, when it stood at 409 (now 488).

On this page, members of the Jefferson Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.