Oak Valley Elementary

Oak Valley Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Tulare, California, part of Oak Valley Union Elementary. The school educates 562 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 21% above typical.

Oak Valley Elementary is a school of Oak Valley Union Elementary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oak Valley Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% White. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Oak Valley Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +1.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tulare County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, 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 Valley Elementary is one.

Pleasant Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Oak Valley Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 568 students in 2018 compared to 562 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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