Belvedere Elementary

Belvedere Elementary, a mid-tier elementary-level community in Highland, California, operated by San Bernardino City Unified, works with 557 students, covering grades K through 6.

Belvedere Elementary is one of 72 schools operated by San Bernardino City Unified, a district that enrolls 44,080 students overall.

On demographics, Belvedere Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder is composed of 4% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Belvedere Elementary shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Belvedere Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Belvedere Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Barton Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belvedere Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belvedere Elementary at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 18.6%.

Belvedere Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belvedere Elementary has edged down 18%, going from 677 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 81% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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