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Powers-Ginsburg Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Powers-Ginsburg Elementary
Located at 110 East Swift Ave., in Fresno, California, Powers-Ginsburg Elementary is an average-sized primary school that teaches 421 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Fresno Unified.
Across the 100 schools in Fresno Unified (67,873 students total), Powers-Ginsburg Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Powers-Ginsburg Elementary logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 16% White, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Powers-Ginsburg Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.0%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Fresno County put the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Powers-Ginsburg Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Wawona K-8, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Powers-Ginsburg Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Powers-Ginsburg Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 27.5%.
Powers-Ginsburg Elementary operates from a suburban location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Powers-Ginsburg Elementary has declined 17%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.
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