Nell Dawson Elementary

Nell Dawson Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Coalinga, California, overseen by Coalinga-Huron Unified. Current enrollment sits at 405 students spanning grades 1 through 3.

Within Coalinga-Huron Unified, which oversees 11 schools and 4,406 students, Nell Dawson Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Nell Dawson Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 12% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 72% of students at Nell Dawson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Nell Dawson Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.8%; this one comes in at 19.1%, -17.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household earnings sit near $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%. Nell Dawson Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Sunset Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Nell Dawson Elementary. On composite proficiency, Nell Dawson Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Nell Dawson Elementary's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 405). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 75% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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