Mission Valley Elementary

Mission Valley Elementary is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Tulare, California, part of Tulare City, 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 18 schools in Tulare City (9,289 students total), Mission Valley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mission Valley Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 23% White, 7% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Tulare County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Mission Valley Elementary reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at Mission Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mission Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tulare County put the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Mission Valley Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

The closest other public school is Liberty Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mission Valley Elementary. On composite proficiency, Mission Valley Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mission Valley Elementary's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 743 (now 671). White enrollment moved from 30% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

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