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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Santa Fe Elementary administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
809
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTERVILLE UNIFIED·NCES 060006411533
Santa Fe Elementary
286 East Orange Ave., Porterville, CA 93257 · (559) 782-6614 · Tulare County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL809 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
719 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 182 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 121 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (182) is 50% larger than its 5th grade class (121).
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Santa Fe Elementary→Pioneer Middle
Based on grade levels within Porterville Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
55.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.6pp since 2014
Math
54.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 28.8% | 26.8% | 25.7% | 18.7% |
| Math | 24.1% | 30.5% | 26.3% | 19.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.6% | 54.6% |
| 2023-24 | 48.6% | 48.9% |
| 2022-23 | 49.9% | 57.6% |
| 2021-22 | 46.6% | 55.0% |
| 2018-19 | 60.3% | 64.3% |
| 2017-18 | 62.6% | 52.0% |
| 2016-17 | 54.5% | 50.7% |
| 2015-16 | 57.0% | 50.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 53.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Santa Fe Elementary
Santa Fe Elementary's state test result (51.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Elementary this school | 809 | 88.9% | 51.8% |
| Sherwood Elementary Salinas | 859 | 90.2% | 20.0% |
| Hollydale South Gate | 794 | 87.9% | 37.6% |
| Lemonwood Elementary Oxnard | 808 | 91.1% | 24.2% |
| Driffill Elementary Oxnard | 891 | 87.8% | 23.8% |
| Accelerated Los Angeles | 729 | 88.9% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Santa Fe Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #1,593 of 5,151 | #7 of 102 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #1,330 of 5,172 ▲ 255 | #6 of 102 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #1,645 of 5,172 ▲ 357 | #7 of 102 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #1,857 of 5,116 | #61 of 102 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 809 | #363 of 5,915 | #4 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #2,496 of 5,352 | #53 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.4% | #5,276 of 5,354 | #97 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.9% | #1,238 of 5,625 | #34 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.5% | #404 of 1,139 | #6 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
809
0 (0%) vs 2020
+4% since 2010-11, when it was 781
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 23.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 809 | 36.2 | 22.4:1 | 89% (719) |
| 2023-24 | 822 | 36.3 | 22.6:1 | 64% (527) |
| 2022-23 | 822 | 35.7 | 23.0:1 | 82% (676) |
| 2020-21 | 809 | 34 | 23.8:1 | 85% (688) |
| 2017-18 | 713 | 30 | 23.8:1 | 80% (569) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 31 | 23.9:1 | 80% (593) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | N/A | N/A | 91% (711) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Santa Fe Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (713 to 809); teachers up 20% (30 to 36.2).
About Santa Fe Elementary
In Porterville, California, Santa Fe Elementary is a large elementary school. Enrollment stands at 809 students, covering kindergarten through 5. The school is 74% above the average for elementary schools in California.
Santa Fe Elementary is a school in Porterville Unified. The district has 22 schools and 13,893 students.
The share of students at Santa Fe Elementary who are Hispanic is 98%. Among people living in Tulare County, the Hispanic share is about 67%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 3%.
Its ratio of 22.4:1 is based on 36.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. In all, 89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Tulare County average 77%.
On the allk12 Grade, Santa Fe Elementary lands at A, ahead of 88% of California public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Santa Fe Elementary is 27.5%. It actually posts 51.8%, which is 24.4 points higher and in the top 10% of California schools.
Looking at the county, Tulare County, the median household earns about $71,300 a year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Santa Fe Elementary, Tulare County has 196 public schools.
Santa Fe Elementary's nearest public school is Olive Street Elementary (about 0.8 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Santa Fe Elementary. Santa Fe Elementary places 1st of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal data place Santa Fe Elementary in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 809 to 809, a small change. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 23.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 22.4:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Santa Fe Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Porterville Unified
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Pioneer MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Westfield ElementaryElementary · 661 students
- Olive Street ElementaryElementary · 624 students
Other schools in Porterville
- Summit Charter AcademyCombined · 2,423 students
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Monarch River AcademyCombined · 1,338 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Pioneer MiddleMiddle · 754 students
Other Santa Fe Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Santa Fe Elementary. Santa Fe Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Santa Fe Elementary SchoolCLEVELAND, TX · 1,072 students
- Santa Fe Elementary SchoolPEORIA, AZ · 698 students
- Santa Fe Elementary SchoolMoore, OK · 414 students
- Santa Fe Elementary SchoolCLEBURNE, TX · 382 students
- SANTA FE ELEMENTARYKANSAS CITY, MO · 356 students
Nearby schools
- Olive Street Elementary0.8 mi · 624
- Roche Elementary0.8 mi · 334
- John J. Doyle Elementary0.8 mi · 552
- Vandalia Elementary0.9 mi · 556
- Pioneer Middle0.9 mi · 754
- Porterville High1.1 mi · 2,125
Frequently asked questions
About Santa Fe ElementaryHow many students attend Santa Fe Elementary?
Santa Fe Elementary enrolls approximately 809 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Santa Fe Elementary serve?
Santa Fe Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Santa Fe Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Santa Fe Elementary is approximately 22.4:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Santa Fe Elementary?
Santa Fe Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Santa Fe Elementary?
Santa Fe Elementary is overseen by Porterville Unified in Tulare County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.