Maple Elementary

Maple Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Tulare, California, operated by Tulare City. The school caters to 574 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Maple Elementary sits 23% above that benchmark.

Maple Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Tulare City, a district that educates 9,289 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest breaks down as 6% White. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Maple Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Maple Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 12.7%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tulare County shows median household earnings sit near $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Maple Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Tulare City Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maple Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 27.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Maple Elementary's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 574). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Maple Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.