Beech Avenue Elementary

Beech Avenue Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Fontana, California, operated by Fontana Unified, with 615 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 465.

Within Fontana Unified, which oversees 44 schools and 32,735 students, Beech Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Beech Avenue Elementary logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beech Avenue Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Beech Avenue Elementary qualify 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beech Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate 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), Beech Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Mojave River Academy - Gold Canyon is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beech Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 775 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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