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About this school
Freedom Elementary School is
a rural public school
in Farmersville, California that is part of Farmersville Unified School District.
It serves 566 students
in grades 4 - 6 with a student/teacher ratio of 28.3:1.
Its teachers have had 2 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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of students receive free or reduced price lunch
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Source: the National Center for Education Statistics
96%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
Data about school demographics comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. The numbers in this chart may not add up to 100% because of limitations in the available data.
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