Vang Pao Elementary

Vang Pao Elementary is a heavily attended elementary-level community in Fresno, California, part of Fresno Unified. The school instructs 802 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Vang Pao Elementary sits 72% larger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Vang Pao Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vang Pao Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 25.4%; actual is 40.2%, +14.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Vang Pao Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Sequoia Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vang Pao Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vang Pao Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 26.9%.

Vang Pao Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Vang Pao Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 822 (now 802). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 75% to 63%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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