Valley Oak Elementary

Valley Oak Elementary is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Fresno, California, operated by Clovis Unified, with 509 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Clovis Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 43,611 students. Valley Oak Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Valley Oak Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Valley Oak Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.7%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that 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%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Valley Oak Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Liberty Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Valley Oak Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 69.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Valley Oak Elementary has expanded 3%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 46% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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