Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary

Set in Alta Loma, California, Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary is a sprawling elementary school, operated by Etiwanda Elementary. It instructs 878 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary sits 89% above that benchmark.

Etiwanda Elementary comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 13,666 students; Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 15% White, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.1%; Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary posts 75.7%, +15.6 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for San Bernardino County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rancho Cucamonga High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 60.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary's enrollment has rose 55% since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 878). Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 19% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 28.2:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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