Bear Mountain Elementary

As a high-enrollment primary school in Arvin, California, Bear Mountain Elementary instructs 728 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Arvin Union. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bear Mountain Elementary sits 57% above that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Arvin Union (2,801 students total), Bear Mountain Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Bear Mountain Elementary logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Bear Mountain Elementary records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bear Mountain Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.8%, the actual is 17.3%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Bear Mountain Elementary is one.

Haven Drive Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bear Mountain Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bear Mountain Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.3%.

Bear Mountain Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Bear Mountain Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 722 (now 728).

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