Tolenas Elementary

Tolenas Elementary is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Fairfield, California, one of the schools within Fairfield-Suisun Unified, enrolling 316 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Fairfield-Suisun Unified comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 20,505 students; Tolenas Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Tolenas Elementary lists that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 16% Black, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian, 7% White. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Tolenas Elementary shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 84% of students at Tolenas Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Solano County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Tolenas Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 29.5%; actual is 9.2%, a gap of -20.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Solano County put median household earnings sit near $100,401, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Solano County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), Tolenas Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dan O. Root Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tolenas Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tolenas Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 22.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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