Mario G. Olmos Elementary

Mario G. Olmos Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Fresno, California, one of the schools within Fresno Unified, with 536 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Fresno Unified runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 67,873 students. Mario G. Olmos Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mario G. Olmos Elementary records that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Asian, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mario G. Olmos Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Fresno County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Mario G. Olmos Elementary is one.

Burroughs Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mario G. Olmos Elementary. On composite proficiency, Mario G. Olmos Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Mario G. Olmos Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 33% since 2018, when it stood at 795 (now 536). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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