Alicia Cortez Elementary

Alicia Cortez Elementary is one of the tight-knit elementary-level communitys in Chino, California, overseen by Chino Valley Unified, with 390 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Alicia Cortez Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Chino Valley Unified, a district that hosts 25,548 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alicia Cortez Elementary records that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White, 5% Asian, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, On paper, Alicia Cortez Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Alicia Cortez Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.0%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of +6.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Alicia Cortez Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

The closest other public school is Magnolia Junior High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alicia Cortez Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 37%: 619 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 12% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 today.

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