Enrollment
328
Elementary
STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PACIFIC UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 062940004532
Pacific Union Elementary
2065 East Bowles Ave., Fresno, CA 93725 · (559) 834-2533 · Fresno County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% 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
17.3:1
19 FTE teachers
STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
295 students
STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 10% smaller than its 8th grade class (39).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
37.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +13.4pp since 2014
Math
39.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +23.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 23 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.5% | 28.0% | 27.5% | 35.1% |
| Math | 15.6% | 23.4% | 25.2% | 35.8% |
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 | 37.4% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.4% | 32.9% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 37.3% |
| 2021-22 | 39.8% | 32.4% |
| 2018-19 | 37.2% | 29.4% |
| 2017-18 | 42.8% | 34.0% |
| 2016-17 | 27.9% | 21.9% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Pacific Union Elementary
Pacific Union Elementary's state test result (37.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Union Elementary this school | 328 | 89.9% | 37.3% |
| E. P. Foster Elementary Ventura | 299 | 90.3% | 20.7% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary Santa Rosa | 305 | 92.1% | 7.3% |
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary Selma | 335 | 91.3% | 23.8% |
| Empire Elementary Empire | 384 | 89.6% | 16.8% |
| Jefferson Elementary Lindsay | 355 | 89.3% | 28.6% |
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 Pacific Union Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Fresno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #2,730 of 5,151 | #87 of 185 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #2,363 of 5,172 ▲ 429 | #71 of 185 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #3,183 of 5,172 ▼ 598 | #105 of 185 ▼ 31 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.2pp | #2,582 of 5,116 | #131 of 182 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #4,498 of 5,915 | #167 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #163 of 5,352 | #16 of 190 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.6% | #4,291 of 5,354 | #144 of 190 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.9% | #1,114 of 5,625 | #78 of 199 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.5% | #1,845 of 3,837 | #49 of 135 |
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
328
-26 (-7%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 415
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 328 | 19 | 17.3:1 | 90% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 345 | 20 | 17.3:1 | 90% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 344 | 19 | 18.1:1 | 91% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 354 | 19 | 18.6:1 | 90% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 393 | 21 | 18.7:1 | 90% (353) |
| 2015-16 | 388 | 20 | 19.4:1 | 87% (337) |
| 2010-11 | 359 | N/A | N/A | 85% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 418 | 23 | 18.2:1 | 75% (315) |
| 1990-91 | 415 | 21 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pacific Union Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (393 to 328); teachers down 10% (21 to 19).
About Pacific Union Elementary
Pacific Union Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Fresno, California, administered by Pacific Union Elementary. Enrollment totals 328 students across kindergarten through 8. The school is 29% below the average for elementary schools in California.
Pacific Union Elementary operates as its own local education agency.
Roughly 87% of students at Pacific Union Elementary are Hispanic. Other students are 12% White. By comparison, Fresno County residents are about 55% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pacific Union Elementary scores 23%.
Its ratio of 17.3:1 is based on 19 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 90%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Fresno County is 75%.
Pacific Union Elementary earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 61% of California public elementary schools.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Pacific Union Elementary's results are 10.4 points above predicted: 37.3% against 26.8%.
In the wider Fresno County area, the median household earns about $74,201 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 14%. Across Fresno County, 368 public schools serve about 206,072 students.
Pacific Union Elementary is about 2.7 miles from Monroe Elementary, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Pacific Union Elementary is behind the 38.9% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 4.
Federal data place Pacific Union Elementary in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
A 7% decrease took enrollment from 354 in 2020-21 to 328 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.6:1 to 17.3:1.
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Fresno County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,016,725
Census ACS
Median income
$74,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
368
206,072 students
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One other US public school is named Pacific Union Elementary. Pacific Union Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Pacific Union ElementaryArcata, CA · 534 students
Nearby schools
- Monroe Elementary2.7 mi · 150
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Frequently asked questions
About Pacific Union ElementaryHow many students attend Pacific Union Elementary?
Pacific Union Elementary enrolls approximately 328 students in grades KG-08.
Is Pacific Union Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pacific Union Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pacific Union Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pacific Union Elementary is approximately 17.3:1 (19 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Pacific Union Elementary?
Pacific Union Elementary reports a student body of 12% White, 87% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees Pacific Union Elementary?
Pacific Union Elementary is overseen by Pacific Union Elementary in Fresno County.
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