Starr Elementary

Starr Elementary is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in Fresno, California, one of the schools within Fresno Unified, with 336 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Starr Elementary is one of 100 schools operated by Fresno Unified, a district that instructs 67,873 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Starr Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. Compared to Fresno County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Starr Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fresno County put 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), Starr Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Florence E. Rata is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Starr Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Starr Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 336). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 40% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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