Tamarack Elementary

Tamarack Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Avenal, California, one of the schools within Reef-Sunset Unified, with 433 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Reef-Sunset Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,663 students; Tamarack Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Tamarack Elementary records that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Tamarack Elementary logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tamarack Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.8%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $70,995 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Tamarack Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).

The closest other public school is Reef-Sunset Secondary Community Day, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Tamarack Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tamarack Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 14.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 443 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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