Linwood Elementary

Linwood Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Visalia, California, overseen by Visalia Unified, enrolls 537 students, covering grades K through 6.

Across the 41 schools in Visalia Unified (28,725 students total), Linwood Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Linwood Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 22% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Linwood Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Linwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Linwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Tulare County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Linwood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: La Joya Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Linwood Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Linwood Elementary's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 584 (now 537). Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.8:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

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