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Coyote Canyon Elementary
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Coyote Canyon Elementary
Located at 7889 Elm Ave., in Rancho Cucamonga, California, Coyote Canyon Elementary is a big elementary campus that enrolls 817 students (grades K through 4), run under Central Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Coyote Canyon Elementary sits 76% bigger than that benchmark.
Central Elementary runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,317 students. Coyote Canyon Elementary is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Coyote Canyon Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 18% Black, 17% Asian, 12% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Coyote Canyon Elementary 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 38.4%; Coyote Canyon Elementary posts 58.1%, +19.6 points above that line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Coyote Canyon Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Ruth Musser Middle, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coyote Canyon Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.7%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Coyote Canyon Elementary's enrollment has rose 14% since 2018, when it stood at 717 (now 817). White enrollment moved from 23% to 12% across the same window.
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