Wawona K-8

As a medium-sized primary school in Fresno, California, Wawona K-8 enrolls 688 students from grades K through 8, part of Fresno Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

Fresno Unified comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 67,873 students; Wawona K-8 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wawona K-8 shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school lists 9% White, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Wawona K-8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wawona K-8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.9%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -8.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fresno County shows 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), Wawona K-8 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Powers-Ginsburg Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wawona K-8. On composite proficiency, Wawona K-8 comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wawona K-8 has increased 39%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 688 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 65% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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