Kratt Elementary, Fresno CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Kratt Elementary

Kratt Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade in central Fresno, a city in California's Central Valley that has long been a car-oriented sprawl of subdivisions and now sees itself being reshaped by downtown revitalization efforts. The school enrolls about a mid-sized number of students, with a majority experiencing economic hardship: a substantial share of the families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with meaningful Asian, white, and Black populations, and smaller numbers of other groups.

The school's most recent state test data, from spring 2025, shows proficiency rates well below the state average across math and English language arts. In math, proficiency declines as students progress through the grades, with third graders showing the highest results and sixth graders showing the lowest. In English language arts, the pattern is less consistent: third grade starts low, fourth grade climbs, fifth grade rises further, and sixth grade recedes slightly. Science testing, available only for fifth grade, shows very low proficiency. When proficiency rates across tested subjects and grades are averaged together, Kratt sits slightly above the midpoint among the school districts in Fresno County, though still at a level that reflects the broader academic challenges facing many schools serving high-poverty populations in the region.

The school's academic profile sits in an economically stressed area. Fresno as a place has begun reinvesting in its downtown with state housing grants and infrastructure funding, and the Thomas Jefferson neighborhood where Kratt is located includes single-family homes in the affordable range, though exact property values and rents in the immediate school area were not available from the data. The local real estate market across Fresno's zip codes shows modest home values and rents relative to the state and national benchmarks, placing housing within reach for many working families but offering limited equity growth compared to coastal California.

A parent considering Kratt should understand this as a school serving a student body with substantial unmet academic and economic needs, where early grade reading and math instruction will set a foundation but where proficiency gains are modest and decline notably by the upper grades. The school's role in the community is to provide a neighborhood elementary experience for families in central Fresno, and the data does not reflect whether specialized programming, strong intervention systems, or particular instructional strengths exist that might not show up in proficiency numbers alone. A parent may want to look directly into the school's academic support systems, literacy interventions, and staff stability to understand whether the school has the tools and continuity to help individual students progress from the low starting point the data reflects.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 37% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 34% · ▲ 4 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 26% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 29% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 322%

School 22% · District 35% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 434%

School 34% · District 35% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 36% · ▲ 9 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 639%

School 39% · District 38% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Science

Grade 513%

School 13% · District 19% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

This schoolFresno Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income20%Higher-income36%16 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income27%Higher-income64%38 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income42%Higher-income52%10 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income33%Higher-income67%33 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income33%Higher-income55%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income35%Higher-income50%15 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income30%Higher-income39%9 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income20%Higher-income50%30 pp gap