Sierra Vista Elementary

Sierra Vista Elementary operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Clovis, California, overseen by Clovis Unified. Current enrollment sits at 465 students spanning grades K through 6.

Sierra Vista Elementary is one of 51 schools operated by Clovis Unified, a district that serves 43,611 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Sierra Vista Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% White, 11% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sierra Vista Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sierra Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Sierra Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Clovis Global Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sierra Vista Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sierra Vista Elementary's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 465). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 56% to 63%. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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