John C Martinez Elementary

Located at 13174 East Parlier Ave., in Parlier, California, John C Martinez Elementary is an average-sized elementary school that instructs 434 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Parlier Unified.

Parlier Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,206 students; John C Martinez Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, John C Martinez Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at John C Martinez Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John C Martinez Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.4%, the actual is 21.8%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Fresno County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), John C Martinez Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is S Ben Benavidez Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John C Martinez Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John C Martinez Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 480 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the John C Martinez Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.