P. W. Engvall Elementary

P. W. Engvall Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Lemoore, California, one of the schools within Lemoore Union Elementary, with 534 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Lemoore Union Elementary comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,186 students; P. W. Engvall Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, P. W. Engvall Elementary lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 20% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, P. W. Engvall Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), P. W. Engvall Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 47.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $70,995, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. P. W. Engvall Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lemoore Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, P. W. Engvall Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. P. W. Engvall Elementary's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 680 (now 534). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 63% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.