Alta Loma Junior High

As a medium-sized middle school in Alta Loma, California, Alta Loma Junior High works with 831 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Alta Loma Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 26% above typical.

Alta Loma Elementary comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,535 students; Alta Loma Junior High is among them.

On demographics, Alta Loma Junior High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 8% Asian, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Alta Loma Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Alta Loma Junior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jasper Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Alta Loma Junior High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Alta Loma Junior High's enrollment has ticked up 22% since 2018, when it stood at 682 (now 831). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 42% to 30%.

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