Turner Elementary

Turner Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Fresno, California, run under Fresno Unified, works with 585 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Turner Elementary sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

Within Fresno Unified, which oversees 100 schools and 67,873 students, Turner Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Turner Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 12% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fresno County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Turner Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household income runs about $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Turner Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mollie S. Bakman Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Turner Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Turner Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 30.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 611 students in 2018 compared to 585 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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