Berlyn Elementary

Berlyn Elementary, a moderately sized elementary school in Ontario, California, operated by Ontario-Montclair, teaches 639 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Berlyn Elementary sits 37% larger than that benchmark.

Ontario-Montclair comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 17,640 students; Berlyn Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Berlyn Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berlyn Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.9%; this one delivers 30.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household income runs about $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Berlyn Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Edison Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berlyn Elementary. On composite proficiency, Berlyn Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Berlyn Elementary has ticked down 18%, going from 782 students in 2018 to 639 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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