Sunset Elementary

Set in Coalinga, California, Sunset Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school, one of the schools within Coalinga-Huron Unified. It caters to 442 students across grades 4 through 5.

Coalinga-Huron Unified runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,406 students. Sunset Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sunset Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Other groups include 14% White. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Sunset Elementary shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sunset Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Sunset Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of -11.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Fresno County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Sunset Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Nell Dawson Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sunset Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 15.8%.

Sunset Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunset Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 446 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 30.5:1 in 2018 to 27.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.