Bernardo Elementary

Bernardo Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Escondido, California, part of Escondido Union, teacheing 664 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bernardo Elementary sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

Within Escondido Union, which oversees 24 schools and 13,920 students, Bernardo Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bernardo Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bernardo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) shows that median household earnings sit near $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Bernardo Elementary is one.

Miller Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bernardo Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Bernardo Elementary's enrollment has expanded 23% since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 664). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 35% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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