Oak Grove Elementary

Oak Grove Elementary is one of the tight-knit primary schools in Porterville, California, operated by Burton Elementary, with 393 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Burton Elementary comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,805 students; Oak Grove Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oak Grove Elementary logs that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 6% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Oak Grove Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Oak Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oak Grove Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.5%; this one delivers 31.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Tulare County shows median household income runs about $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Oak Grove Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Monache High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Grove Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oak Grove Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 18% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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