Terry Elementary

Terry Elementary is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in Selma, California, part of Selma Unified, educateing 224 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Selma Unified, which oversees 12 schools and 5,911 students, Terry Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Terry Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% Asian, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Terry Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Terry Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Terry Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.5%; this one delivers 13.9%.

In the area at large, Fresno County reports 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%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Terry Elementary is one.

Monroe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Terry Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Terry Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 203 (now 224). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 86% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

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