McKinley Elementary

McKinley Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Fresno, California, run under Central Unified, with 671 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 24 schools in Central Unified (15,956 students total), McKinley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, McKinley Elementary logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 14% Asian, 9% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, McKinley Elementary lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McKinley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.5%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Fresno County shows median household income runs about $74,201, 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 McKinley Elementary is one.

El Capitan Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McKinley Elementary. On composite proficiency, McKinley Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

McKinley Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. McKinley Elementary's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 830 (now 671).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.