Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy

Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy is a mid-sized junior high in San Bernardino, California, part of San Bernardino City Unified. The school serves 640 students in grades 6 through 8.

San Bernardino City Unified comprises 72 schools with combined enrollment of 44,080 students; Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy is among them.

Demographically, Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Other groups include 5% White, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy 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 26.3%; Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy posts 70.5%, +44.2 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) reports that 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. Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Nearest neighbor: Emmerton Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 22.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy has shrank 11%, going from 718 students in 2018 to 640 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 75% to 85% over that span.

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