Congressman Jerry Lewis Elementary

Congressman Jerry Lewis Elementary operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Fort Irwin, California, run under Silver Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades K through 2.

Silver Valley Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,183 students. Congressman Jerry Lewis Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Congressman Jerry Lewis Elementary shows that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Black, 3% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household income runs about $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. Congressman Jerry Lewis Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Fort Irwin Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Congressman Jerry Lewis Elementary.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 546 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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