Thomas Law Reed Elementary

Located at 1400 North Frankwood Ave., in Reedley, California, Thomas Law Reed Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school that works with 558 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Kings Canyon Joint Unified.

Kings Canyon Joint Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 9,696 students; Thomas Law Reed Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Thomas Law Reed Elementary shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thomas Law Reed Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 29.4%; this one delivers 44.8%, a residual of +15.4 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 the poverty rate sits near 14%. Thomas Law Reed Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thomas Law Reed Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thomas Law Reed Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.0%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas Law Reed Elementary has fell 16%, going from 667 students in 2018 to 558 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 today.

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