Willow Glen Elementary

Willow Glen Elementary is a medium-sized primary school in Visalia, California, overseen by Visalia Unified. The school teaches 506 students in grades K through 6.

Visalia Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 28,725 students; Willow Glen Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Willow Glen Elementary shows that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 13% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

In terms of school funding signals, Willow Glen Elementary reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willow Glen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the area at large, Tulare County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Willow Glen Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Hurley Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willow Glen Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

Willow Glen Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 506 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 71% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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