John C. Fremont Elementary

John C. Fremont Elementary is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Merced, California, run under Merced City Elementary, with 580 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Merced City Elementary comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,108 students; John C. Fremont Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, John C. Fremont Elementary shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 10% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting John C. Fremont Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, John C. Fremont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Merced County) logs that median household income runs about $65,510, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. John C. Fremont Elementary is one of 117 public schools in Merced County (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students).

Merced County Special Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John C. Fremont Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 24.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 570 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 15% to 10% over that span.

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