S Ben Benavidez Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Parlier, California, S Ben Benavidez Elementary teaches 409 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Parlier Unified.

Parlier Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,206 students. S Ben Benavidez Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, S Ben Benavidez Elementary shows that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, S Ben Benavidez Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Fresno County put the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), S Ben Benavidez Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Parlier Junior High, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), S Ben Benavidez Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 24.7%.

S Ben Benavidez Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 545 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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