Mark Twain Elementary

Mark Twain Elementary is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Corcoran, California, one of the schools within Corcoran Joint Unified, with 454 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 5.

Mark Twain Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Corcoran Joint Unified, a district that serves 3,175 students overall.

On demographics, Mark Twain Elementary records that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 4% White. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mark Twain Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -2.3 points.

Across the wider county, Kings County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,995, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Mark Twain Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bret Harte Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mark Twain Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

Mark Twain Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mark Twain Elementary has fell 20%, going from 571 students in 2018 to 454 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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