Charles Hoffman Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary school in Running Springs, California, Charles Hoffman Elementary hosts 297 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Rim of the World Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 36% below typical.

Rim of the World Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,874 students; Charles Hoffman Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Charles Hoffman Elementary logs that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 33% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Charles Hoffman Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Charles Hoffman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Charles Hoffman Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cram Elementary, around 6.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Charles Hoffman Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charles Hoffman Elementary has ticked down 9%, going from 328 students in 2018 to 297 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 28% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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