Spring Valley Elementary

As a cozy elementary school in O'Neals, California, Spring Valley Elementary hosts 230 students from grades K through 8, part of Chawanakee Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Spring Valley Elementary sits 51% below that benchmark.

Chawanakee Unified comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 1,407 students; Spring Valley Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Spring Valley Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Madera County's rate of about 81%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Spring Valley Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.8%; Spring Valley Elementary posts 28.4%, -22.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Madera County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $76,627 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Madera County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students), Spring Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cedar Continuation High, roughly 1.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Spring Valley Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spring Valley Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 12%: 206 students in 2018 compared to 230 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 22% across the same window.

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