Lone Star Elementary

Located at 2617 South Fowler Ave., in Fresno, California, Lone Star Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school that instructs 672 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Sanger Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 45% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Sanger Unified comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 13,313 students; Lone Star Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Lone Star Elementary reports that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 41% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Lone Star Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Lone Star Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Lone Star Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sanger West High, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lone Star Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lone Star Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

Lone Star Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 56%: 432 students in 2018 compared to 672 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 33% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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