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What's something Pinedale Elementary does better than most schools?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 645 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLOVIS UNIFIED·NCES 060903009761
Pinedale Elementary
7171 Sugar Pine Ave., Pinedale, CA 93650 · (559) 327-7700 · Fresno County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
18.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
395 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 57 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 5% larger than its 6th grade class (57).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
29.7%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.3pp since 2014
Math
23.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.6% | 18.1% | 26.3% | 44.0% |
| Math | 8.5% | 15.1% | 27.4% | 49.0% |
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 | 29.7% | 23.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.8% | 26.6% |
| 2022-23 | 23.5% | 22.5% |
| 2021-22 | 32.0% | 27.3% |
| 2018-19 | 37.9% | 35.7% |
| 2017-18 | 40.4% | 37.2% |
| 2016-17 | 33.2% | 34.3% |
| 2015-16 | 42.0% | 34.0% |
| 2014-15 | 33.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
26.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Pinedale Elementary
Pinedale Elementary's state test result (26.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinedale Elementary this school | 433 | 91.2% | 26.9% |
| Joyner Elementary San Diego | 410 | 93.7% | 20.4% |
| Catskill Avenue Elementary Carson | 419 | 90.2% | 44.6% |
| E. Ruth Sheldon Academy of Innovative Learning Fairfield | 492 | 93.1% | 14.5% |
| Homan Elementary Fresno | 475 | 94.3% | 31.2% |
| Monroe Elementary Stockton | 426 | 92.3% | 15.2% |
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 Pinedale Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Fresno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #3,871 of 5,151 | #141 of 185 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #3,929 of 5,172 ▼ 487 | #142 of 185 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #4,014 of 5,172 ▲ 11 | #141 of 185 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #951 of 5,116 | #19 of 182 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #3,240 of 5,915 | #139 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #471 of 5,352 | #38 of 190 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.2% | #3,232 of 5,354 | #100 of 190 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.2% | #936 of 5,625 | #68 of 199 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.6% | #934 of 3,837 | #13 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
433
-73 (-14%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 640
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 23.0:1
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 | 433 | 23 | 18.8:1 | 91% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 23.1 | 19.8:1 | 86% (397) |
| 2022-23 | 488 | 24.2 | 20.2:1 | 87% (424) |
| 2020-21 | 506 | 22 | 23.0:1 | 83% (422) |
| 2017-18 | 574 | 21 | 27.3:1 | 87% (500) |
| 2015-16 | 515 | 20 | 25.8:1 | 91% (468) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | N/A | N/A | 84% (369) |
| 2000-01 | 542 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 82% (447) |
| 1990-91 | 640 | 29 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pinedale Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (574 to 433); teachers up 10% (21 to 23).
About Pinedale Elementary
Pinedale Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Pinedale, California. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 433 students.
Pinedale Elementary is part of Clovis Unified, where 51 schools serve 43,611 students.
More than half of enrollment at Pinedale Elementary is Hispanic: 74%. Next come 10% Asian, 7% Black, 6% White, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 55% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pinedale Elementary scores 43%.
A staff of 23 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.8:1. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 91%. That is 16 points above the 75% average for public schools in Fresno County.
Among California public elementary schools, Pinedale Elementary outscored 26%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 26.1% for Pinedale Elementary. The school posts 26.9%, within a point of the prediction.
The school's county is Fresno County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $74,201 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. Public schools in Fresno County number 368, with about 206,072 students.
Kratt Elementary is the nearest public school to Pinedale Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Pinedale Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Pinedale Elementary enrolled 506 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 433. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 23.0:1 to 18.8:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Pinedale Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clovis Unified
- Clovis East HighHigh · 3,113 students
- Clovis HighHigh · 2,779 students
- Buchanan HighHigh · 2,551 students
- Clovis North HighHigh · 2,360 students
- Clovis West HighHigh · 2,184 students
- Reyburn IntermediateMiddle · 1,785 students
Other Pinedale Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Pinedale Elementary. Pinedale Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- PINEDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLJACKSONVILLE, FL · 482 students
- Pinedale ElementaryPinedale, WY · 424 students
- Pinedale Elementary - 11Rapid City, SD · 377 students
- Pinedale Elementary SchoolEnterprise, AL · 350 students
Nearby schools
- Kratt Elementary0.9 mi · 620
- McCardle Elementary1.1 mi · 463
- Kastner Intermediate1.2 mi · 1,155
- Lincoln Elementary1.2 mi · 631
- Nelson Elementary1.3 mi · 466
- Baird Middle1.6 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Pinedale ElementaryHow many students attend Pinedale Elementary?
Pinedale Elementary enrolls approximately 433 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Pinedale Elementary serve?
Pinedale Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Pinedale Elementary?
Approximately 18.8:1 students per teacher at Pinedale Elementary.
How diverse is Pinedale Elementary?
Pinedale Elementary reports a student body of 6% White, 74% Hispanic, 7% Black, 10% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Pinedale Elementary?
Pinedale Elementary is overseen by Clovis Unified in Fresno County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.