Wilson Elementary

Wilson Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Tulare, California, one of the schools within Tulare City. Current enrollment sits at 487 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 18 schools in Tulare City (9,289 students total), Wilson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wilson Elementary reports that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 94% 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, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 22.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tulare County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Wilson Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Tulare Union High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilson Elementary. On composite proficiency, Wilson Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Wilson Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 487). Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Wilson Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.