Caryn Elementary

Caryn Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus in Alta Loma, California, part of Etiwanda Elementary. The school caters to 553 students in grades K through 5.

Etiwanda Elementary runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 13,666 students. Caryn Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Caryn Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Asian, 22% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at Caryn Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Caryn Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.2%.

Around the school, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Caryn Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Los Osos High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Caryn Elementary. On composite proficiency, Caryn Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Caryn Elementary has contracted 6%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 553 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 32% to 22%. Class-load math has fell: from 29.4:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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