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Enrollment
838
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SANGER UNIFIED·NCES 063525005973
John S. Wash Elementary
6350 East Ln. Ave., Fresno, CA 93727 · (559) 524-6320 · Fresno County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL838 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 70% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
505 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 168 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 136 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 108 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (168) is 56% larger than its 6th grade class (108).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
57.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.6pp since 2014
Math
48.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 27.8% | 29.9% | 19.9% | 22.4% |
| Math | 25.3% | 22.7% | 29.5% | 22.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.6% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 50.0% |
| 2022-23 | 55.8% | 50.2% |
| 2021-22 | 58.8% | 46.4% |
| 2018-19 | 62.1% | 60.4% |
| 2017-18 | 57.4% | 51.6% |
| 2016-17 | 49.5% | 45.5% |
| 2015-16 | 60.0% | 51.0% |
| 2014-15 | 53.0% | 48.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like John S. Wash Elementary
John S. Wash Elementary's state test result (52.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John S. Wash Elementary this school | 838 | 60.3% | 52.1% |
| Edwin Rhodes Elementary Chino | 860 | 64.5% | 62.7% |
| Mesa Elementary West Covina | 753 | 53.7% | 63.8% |
| Joseph Widmer Jr. Elementary Lathrop | 923 | 64.4% | 24.7% |
| Lincoln Fundamental Elementary Corona | 754 | 68.2% | 56.8% |
| Herndon-Barstow Elementary Fresno | 754 | 68.6% | 48.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where John S. Wash Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Fresno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #1,582 of 5,151 | #44 of 185 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,715 of 5,172 ▼ 185 | #48 of 185 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #1,492 of 5,172 ▲ 349 | #41 of 185 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #3,259 of 5,116 | #149 of 182 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 838 | #287 of 5,915 | #10 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.4:1 | #3,287 of 5,352 | #145 of 190 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #1,243 of 5,354 | #34 of 190 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.3% | #3,468 of 5,625 | #163 of 199 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.3% | #92 of 1,139 | #6 of 49 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
838
+154 (+23%) vs 2020
+332% since 1990-91, when it was 194
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
was 25.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 838 | 35.8 | 23.4:1 | 60% (505) |
| 2023-24 | 815 | 33.8 | 24.1:1 | 61% (494) |
| 2022-23 | 769 | 30.1 | 25.6:1 | 61% (470) |
| 2020-21 | 684 | 27 | 25.3:1 | 55% (375) |
| 2017-18 | 615 | 26 | 23.6:1 | 62% (382) |
| 2015-16 | 506 | 19 | 26.6:1 | 61% (309) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | N/A | N/A | 65% (298) |
| 2000-01 | 225 | 11 | 20.4:1 | 37% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 194 | 9 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John S. Wash Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 36% (615 to 838); teachers up 38% (26 to 35.8).
About John S. Wash Elementary
Families in Fresno, California, are served by John S. Wash Elementary, a large elementary school. There are 838 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 6. The school is 80% bigger than the average for elementary schools in California.
Sanger Unified serves 13,313 students across 20 schools.
The largest group at John S. Wash Elementary is Hispanic students, at 48%. It is also 32% Asian, 10% White, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. The diversity index for John S. Wash Elementary is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
John S. Wash Elementary has 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 23.4:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 1.1 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 60% at John S. Wash Elementary. For comparison, public schools in Fresno County average 75%.
John S. Wash Elementary earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 70% of California public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, John S. Wash Elementary is 7.9 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.1% actual, 44.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
In Fresno County, home to about 1,016,725 people, the median household earns about $74,201 a year, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. John S. Wash Elementary shares Fresno County with 367 other public schools.
Fancher Creek Elementary, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of John S. Wash Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 42.2%; John S. Wash Elementary's is 52.1%, ranking 3rd of 9.
John S. Wash Elementary has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment rose 23% over 4 years, reaching 838 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 25.3:1 to 23.4:1 over the same years.
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Fresno County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,016,725
Census ACS
Median income
$74,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
368
206,072 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sanger Unified
- Sanger HighHigh · 2,426 students
- Washington Academic MiddleMiddle · 1,539 students
- Sanger West HighHigh · 1,438 students
- Fairmont ElementaryElementary · 744 students
- Sequoia ElementaryElementary · 696 students
- Lone Star ElementaryElementary · 672 students
Other schools in Fresno
- Yosemite Valley CharterCombined · 3,065 students
- Sunnyside HighHigh · 2,858 students
- Bullard HighHigh · 2,485 students
- Clovis North HighHigh · 2,360 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,339 students
- Clovis West HighHigh · 2,184 students
Nearby schools
- Fancher Creek Elementary0.8 mi · 649
- Temperance-Kutner Elementary1.6 mi · 618
- Sanger West High1.6 mi · 1,438
- Sequoia Elementary1.6 mi · 696
- Ayer Elementary2.2 mi · 590
- Sunnyside High2.3 mi · 2,858
Frequently asked questions
About John S. Wash ElementaryHow large is John S. Wash Elementary?
John S. Wash Elementary enrolls approximately 838 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does John S. Wash Elementary serve?
John S. Wash Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at John S. Wash Elementary?
Approximately 23.4:1 students per teacher at John S. Wash Elementary.
How diverse is John S. Wash Elementary?
John S. Wash Elementary reports a student body of 10% White, 48% Hispanic, 3% Black, 32% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is John S. Wash Elementary in?
John S. Wash Elementary is part of Sanger Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.