Central Language Academy

Central Language Academy is an elementary campus of heavily attended scale in Ontario, California, operated by Ontario-Montclair, instructing 736 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Central Language Academy sits 58% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 33 schools in Ontario-Montclair (17,640 students total), Central Language Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Central Language Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Central Language Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 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 Central Language Academy is one.

Vina Danks Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central Language Academy at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 35.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Language Academy has climbed 4%, going from 709 students in 2018 to 736 in 2025.

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