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Porterville Unified

Porterville, California · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

13,893
Students enrolled
22
Public schools
632
Classroom teachers (FTE)
22.0:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 946
  • Grade 1 690
  • Grade 2 721
  • Grade 3 776
  • Grade 4 747
  • Grade 5 811
  • Grade 6 779
  • Grade 7 802
  • Grade 8 830
  • Grade 9 1,677
  • Grade 10 1,605
  • Grade 11 1,716
  • Grade 12 1,793

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 85%
  • White 8%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native 2%
  • Asian 2%
  • Two or more races 2%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 12,550 of 13,893 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 84%
  • Reduced-price lunch 6%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$19,843 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $10,952
  • Support services $7,673
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,218

Where the money comes from

  • Local 13%
  • State 72%
  • Federal 14%

Total revenue $361.4 milliontotal spending $334.1 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: SmallStudents: 86% suburb, 14% rural

Total staff (FTE)

1,470

District office

600 West Grand Ave., Porterville CA 93257

County

Tulare County

Official website

NCES District ID

600064

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About Porterville Unified

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Porterville Unified School District is committed to providing a safe and secure learning environment where each student can achieve their highest potential. Porterville Unified is continually upgrading classroom curriculum, planning for the future through the development of technology, and has created school-to-business partnerships.
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