Kern Avenue Elementary

Set in McFarland, California, Kern Avenue Elementary is a sprawling primary school, part of McFarland Unified. It serves 700 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 51% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 7 schools in McFarland Unified (3,282 students total), Kern Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Kern Avenue Elementary logs that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, Kern Avenue Elementary lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kern Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 23.3%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kern County shows median household income runs about $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Kern Avenue Elementary is one.

McFarland Independent is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Kern Avenue Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

Kern Avenue Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Kern Avenue Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 707 (now 700). Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.