Thomas Elementary

Thomas Elementary operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in Fresno, California, one of the schools within Fresno Unified. Current enrollment sits at 859 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 85% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Fresno Unified comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 67,873 students; Thomas Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Thomas Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 16% Asian, 9% Black, 7% White, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Thomas Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Thomas Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 22.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that median household income runs about $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Thomas Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Monarch River Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 810 students in 2018 compared to 859 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.0:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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