Public school / Primary
Merle L. Fuller Elementary
Chowchilla, California
- NCES ID
- 060852000849
- District
- Chowchilla Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Merle L. Fuller Elementary is a public primary school in Chowchilla, California, run by Chowchilla Elementary. It enrols 527 students — the 34121st largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
527
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
21.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Chowchilla Elementary
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Merle L. Fuller Elementary527 students
- 2Wilson Middle493 students
- 3Fairmead Elementary468 students
- 4Ronald Reagan Elementary451 students
- 5Stephens Elementary216 students
- Enrollment+11.2%
- Teachers+19.0%
- Students per teacher−4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+32.3%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory