Mineral King Elementary

Mineral King Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Visalia, California, part of Visalia Unified. Current enrollment sits at 569 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Visalia Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 28,725 students. Mineral King Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mineral King Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). The remainder is composed of 10% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Mineral King Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mineral King Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.7%; this one delivers 31.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tulare County) shows that median household income runs about $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Mineral King Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pinkham Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mineral King Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Mineral King Elementary's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 569). Class-load math has pulled in: from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

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