About Hanford Elementary School District
Hanford Elementary School District is a public school system serving Kings County, California, based in Hanford. It serves 5,463 students across 12 schools spanning K–8, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #253 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Hanford Elementary School District enrolls 5,463 students in 12 schools — an average of about 455 students per school. It serves grades K–8 and ranks #253 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Hanford Elementary School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (5,463 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Hanford Elementary School District employs about 241 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 22.7:1 — above the California average of about 21.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 578.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Hanford Elementary School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Hanford Elementary School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Hanford Elementary School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Hanford Elementary School District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Hanford Elementary School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):