Wishon Elementary

Wishon Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Fresno, California, overseen by Fresno Unified, with 497 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Across the 100 schools in Fresno Unified (67,873 students total), Wishon Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Wishon Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder looks like 12% Asian, 5% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Wishon Elementary lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, Wishon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.2%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of +8.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fresno County shows median household earnings sit near $74,201, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Wishon Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McLane High, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wishon Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Wishon Elementary's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 497). Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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