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Best kept secret on campus at Lane Elementary?
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Enrollment
555
Elementary
DISTRICT 553 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRESNO UNIFIED·NCES 061455001747
Lane Elementary
4730 East Lowe Ave., Fresno, CA 93702 · (559) 253-6480 · Fresno County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL555 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
528 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
29.2%
CA avg 47.1% . +7.2pp since 2014
Math
32.1%
CA avg 35.6% . +13.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 13 points.
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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
555
-145 (-21%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 22.6:1
% White
2%
was 2%
% Hispanic
86%
was 89%
% Black
4%
was 3%
% Asian
5%
was 6%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Lane Elementary
Lane Elementary is a mid-sized primary school in Fresno, California, operated by Fresno Unified. The school works with 555 students in grades K through 6.
Fresno Unified comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 67,873 students; Lane Elementary is among them.
On demographics, Lane Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Lane Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.
With demographic context factored in, Lane Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 30.4%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,201, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Lane Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Mario G. Olmos Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lane Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lane Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Five-year trend. Lane Elementary's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 700 (now 555). Class-load math has fell: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the Lane Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Fresno Unified
- Sunnyside HighHigh · 2,858 students
- Bullard HighHigh · 2,485 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,339 students
- Roosevelt HighHigh · 2,175 students
- McLane HighHigh · 2,056 students
- Herbert Hoover HighHigh · 2,040 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
- Mario G. Olmos Elementary0.6 mi · 536
- Ezekiel Balderas Elementary0.9 mi · 615
- Vang Pao Elementary0.9 mi · 802
- David L. Greenberg Elementary0.9 mi · 490
- Burroughs Elementary0.9 mi · 674
- Roosevelt High1.0 mi · 2,175
Frequently asked questions
About Lane ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Lane Elementary?
Lane Elementary enrolls approximately 555 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Lane Elementary serve?
Lane Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Lane Elementary have?
Lane Elementary employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Lane Elementary?
Student demographics at Lane Elementary are roughly 2% White, 86% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Lane Elementary public or private?
Lane Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fresno Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.