Los Robles Elementary

Los Robles Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Porterville, California, one of the schools within Porterville Unified, with 424 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Porterville Unified runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 13,893 students. Los Robles Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Los Robles Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest breaks down as 9% White. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Los Robles Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Los Robles Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.9%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Around the school, Tulare County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Los Robles Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Citrus High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Los Robles Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Los Robles Elementary has shrank 20%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

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