Chaparral Elementary

Set in Chino Hills, California, Chaparral Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Chino Valley Unified. It educates 616 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Chino Valley Unified runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 25,548 students. Chaparral Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Chaparral Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 31% Asian, 6% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to San Bernardino County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Chaparral Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chaparral Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Chaparral Elementary is one.

Chino Valley Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chaparral Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chaparral Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Chaparral Elementary's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 636 (now 616). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 16% to 6%. Class-load math has fell: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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