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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Olive Street Elementary?
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Enrollment
624
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTERVILLE UNIFIED·NCES 060006404872
Olive Street Elementary
255 West Olive Ave., Porterville, CA 93257 · (559) 782-7190 · Tulare County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL624 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.5:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
615 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 14% larger than its 6th grade class (85).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
45.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +30.6pp since 2014
Math
37.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +25.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 31 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 25 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 20.1% | 25.5% | 23.5% | 30.9% |
| Math | 17.2% | 20.3% | 25.4% | 37.2% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.6% | 37.5% |
| 2023-24 | 45.5% | 35.4% |
| 2022-23 | 44.6% | 39.7% |
| 2021-22 | 43.3% | 30.4% |
| 2018-19 | 48.0% | 38.8% |
| 2017-18 | 45.8% | 29.6% |
| 2016-17 | 31.5% | 16.0% |
| 2015-16 | 21.0% | 12.0% |
| 2014-15 | 15.0% | 12.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
41.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Olive Street Elementary
Olive Street Elementary's state test result (41.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Street Elementary this school | 624 | 98.6% | 41.2% |
| Middleton Street Elementary Huntington Park | 601 | 99.2% | 36.3% |
| Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary Salinas | 646 | 98.0% | 19.6% |
| James Monroe Elementary Madera | 624 | 97.1% | 32.9% |
| Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Los Angeles | 603 | 99.5% | N/A |
| George Washington Elementary Madera | 578 | 97.9% | 22.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Olive Street Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #2,370 of 5,151 | #22 of 102 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #2,493 of 5,172 ▲ 68 | #25 of 102 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #2,399 of 5,172 ▼ 163 | #27 of 102 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.7pp | #1,743 of 5,116 | #57 of 102 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 624 | #1,191 of 5,915 | #19 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.5:1 | #4,672 of 5,352 | #96 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.3% | #5,138 of 5,354 | #92 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.6% | #52 of 5,625 | #3 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #2,668 of 3,837 | #43 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
624
-48 (-7%) vs 2020
-25% since 2000-01, when it was 828
Student : Teacher
25.5:1
was 29.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 624 | 24.5 | 25.5:1 | 99% (615) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 24.2 | 26.4:1 | 76% (482) |
| 2022-23 | 642 | 24.2 | 26.6:1 | 94% (604) |
| 2020-21 | 672 | 23 | 29.2:1 | 96% (644) |
| 2017-18 | 694 | 26 | 26.7:1 | 95% (656) |
| 2015-16 | 709 | 27 | 26.3:1 | 96% (678) |
| 2010-11 | 735 | N/A | N/A | 100% (732) |
| 2000-01 | 828 | 40 | 20.7:1 | 78% (647) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Olive Street Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (694 to 624); teachers down 6% (26 to 24.5).
About Olive Street Elementary
Olive Street Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Porterville, California. Enrollment stands at 624 students, covering kindergarten through 6. It has 34% more students than the average for elementary schools in California (about 465).
Porterville Unified has 22 schools and 13,893 students, and Olive Street Elementary is one of those schools.
Hispanic students account for 97% of the school's enrollment. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 67%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 6%.
Olive Street Elementary has 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.5:1. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. The school has 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Tulare County is 22 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Olive Street Elementary lands at A-, ahead of 76% of California public elementary schools.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Olive Street Elementary is among the top 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 21.8%. Actual: 41.2%.
For Tulare County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $71,300 a year, roughly 17% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Public schools in Tulare County number 196, with about 101,494 students.
Porterville High is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Olive Street Elementary is 3rd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Olive Street Elementary falls in the Suburb: Small locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a drop of 48 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 29.2:1 in 2020-21, and 25.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Porterville Unified
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Santa Fe ElementaryElementary · 809 students
- Pioneer MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Westfield ElementaryElementary · 661 students
Other schools in Porterville
- Summit Charter AcademyCombined · 2,423 students
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Monarch River AcademyCombined · 1,338 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Santa Fe ElementaryElementary · 809 students
Other Olive Street Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Olive Street Elementary. Olive Street Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Olive Street ElementaryAnaheim, CA · 417 students
Nearby schools
- Porterville High0.3 mi · 2,125
- Bartlett Middle0.5 mi · 443
- Belleview Elementary0.7 mi · 377
- Santa Fe Elementary0.8 mi · 809
- Roche Elementary0.9 mi · 334
- Pioneer Middle1.3 mi · 754
Frequently asked questions
About Olive Street ElementaryHow many students attend Olive Street Elementary?
Olive Street Elementary enrolls approximately 624 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Olive Street Elementary serve?
Olive Street Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Olive Street Elementary have?
Olive Street Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Olive Street Elementary?
At Olive Street Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Olive Street Elementary in?
Olive Street Elementary is part of Porterville Unified.
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