Quail Lake Environmental Charter

Quail Lake Environmental Charter, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Clovis, California, operated by Sanger Unified, teaches 603 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Quail Lake Environmental Charter sits 30% larger than that benchmark.

Sanger Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,313 students. Quail Lake Environmental Charter is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Quail Lake Environmental Charter lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 33% White, 24% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Quail Lake Environmental Charter shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 31% of students at Quail Lake Environmental Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Quail Lake Environmental Charter ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.9%; Quail Lake Environmental Charter posts 76.5%, +15.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Fresno County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Quail Lake Environmental Charter is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

The closest other public school is Fairmont Elementary, roughly 2.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Quail Lake Environmental Charter ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 56.2%.

Quail Lake Environmental Charter operates from a rural location. As a public charter, Quail Lake Environmental Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Quail Lake Environmental Charter has rose 5%, going from 572 students in 2018 to 603 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 51% to 33%. Class-load math has fell: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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