Liberty Elementary

Liberty Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Kerman, California, overseen by Kerman Unified, serveing 563 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 21% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Kerman Unified, which oversees 9 schools and 5,272 students, Liberty Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Liberty Elementary records that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 7% White, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Liberty Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Liberty Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +10.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Fresno County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Liberty Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

The closest other public school is Kerman Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Liberty Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 624 students in 2018 compared to 563 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 80% to 86% over that span.

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