Mollie S. Bakman Elementary

Set in Fresno, California, Mollie S. Bakman Elementary is a high-enrollment K-5 school, part of Fresno Unified. It educates 722 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Mollie S. Bakman Elementary is one of 100 schools operated by Fresno Unified, a district that serves 67,873 students overall.

On demographics, Mollie S. Bakman Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 18% Asian, 6% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mollie S. Bakman Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mollie S. Bakman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Fresno County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Mollie S. Bakman Elementary is one.

Turner Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mollie S. Bakman Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 827 students in 2018 compared to 722 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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