McCord Elementary

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Orange Cove, California, McCord Elementary enrolls 426 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Kings Canyon Joint Unified.

Kings Canyon Joint Unified runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 9,696 students. McCord Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, McCord Elementary logs that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, McCord Elementary logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting McCord Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at McCord Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McCord Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.3%; this one delivers 33.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Fresno County put the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. McCord Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

The closest other public school is A. L. Conner Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, McCord Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McCord Elementary has fell 6%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

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