Barfield Elementary

Barfield Elementary is a K-5 school of low-enrollment scale in Pomona, California, overseen by Pomona Unified, enrolling 282 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Barfield Elementary sits 39% below that benchmark.

Barfield Elementary is one of 37 schools operated by Pomona Unified, a district that educates 20,422 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Barfield Elementary reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 5% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Barfield Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 23.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Barfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pomona High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barfield Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barfield Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barfield Elementary has ticked down 12%, going from 320 students in 2018 to 282 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 84% to 88% over that span.

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