Oak Grove Elementary

Oak Grove Elementary, a big elementary campus in Visalia, California, one of the schools within Visalia Unified, enrolls 756 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Visalia Unified, which oversees 41 schools and 28,725 students, Oak Grove Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Oak Grove Elementary lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 33% of students at Oak Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, Oak Grove Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.1%; this one delivers 63.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tulare County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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.

The closest other public school is Manuel F. Hernandez, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Grove Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Grove Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 47.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 838 students in 2018 compared to 756 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 today.

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