Veva Blunt Elementary

Set in Visalia, California, Veva Blunt Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus, overseen by Visalia Unified. It works with 596 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 41 schools in Visalia Unified (28,725 students total), Veva Blunt Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Veva Blunt Elementary reports that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 13% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Veva Blunt Elementary lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Veva Blunt Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Veva Blunt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put median household income runs about $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Veva Blunt Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Valley Life Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Veva Blunt Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Veva Blunt Elementary at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.8%.

Veva Blunt Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 596 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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