Mendota Elementary

Mendota Elementary is a big elementary campus in Mendota, California, operated by Mendota Unified. The school serves 857 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Mendota Elementary sits 84% bigger than that benchmark.

Mendota Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,977 students. Mendota Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mendota Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mendota Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Mendota Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mendota Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.7%; this one delivers 28.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate 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 Mendota Elementary is one.

McCabe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Mendota Elementary. On composite proficiency, Mendota Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mendota Elementary has rose 12%, going from 764 students in 2018 to 857 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 in 2025.

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