Kirk Elementary

Located at 2000 East Belgravia Ave., in Fresno, California, Kirk Elementary is an intimate elementary campus that enrolls 395 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Fresno Unified.

Fresno Unified runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 67,873 students. Kirk Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Kirk Elementary logs that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 12% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kirk Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Kirk Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kirk Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Kirk Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rutherford B. Gaston Sr. Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kirk Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kirk Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 340 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 74% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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