Captain Leland Norton Elementary

Captain Leland Norton Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school in San Bernardino, California, run under San Bernardino City Unified. The school hosts 460 students in grades K through 6.

Within San Bernardino City Unified, which oversees 72 schools and 44,080 students, Captain Leland Norton Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Captain Leland Norton Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). The remainder breaks down as 14% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Captain Leland Norton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.7%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of +12.3 points.

In the area at large, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Captain Leland Norton Elementary is one.

Community School/Independent Alternative Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Captain Leland Norton Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Captain Leland Norton Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Captain Leland Norton Elementary's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 557 (now 460). Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.