Royal Oaks Elementary

Set in Visalia, California, Royal Oaks Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Visalia Unified. It hosts 413 students across grades K through 8.

Across the 41 schools in Visalia Unified (28,725 students total), Royal Oaks Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Royal Oaks Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment; the rest reads as 16% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Royal Oaks Elementary lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Royal Oaks Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 24.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tulare County) records that median household earnings sit near $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Royal Oaks Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Nearest neighbor: University Preparatory High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Royal Oaks Elementary. On composite proficiency, Royal Oaks Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

Royal Oaks Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Royal Oaks Elementary's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 501 (now 413). Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 33.4:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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