Pixley Elementary

Set in Pixley, California, Pixley Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Pixley Union Elementary. It educates 530 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 2 schools in Pixley Union Elementary (827 students total), Pixley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Pixley Elementary records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 5% White. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Pixley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pixley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 27.2%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Tulare County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Pixley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Pixley Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pixley Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 22.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Pixley Elementary's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 695 (now 530).

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Pixley Elementary typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.