Cram Elementary

Cram Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Highland, California, part of Redlands Unified, with 507 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Redlands Unified comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 19,105 students; Cram Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Cram Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 29% White, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, Cram Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible 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 south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cram Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.4%; this one delivers 58.1%.

In the broader community, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household income runs about $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Cram Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Arroyo Verde Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cram Elementary. On composite proficiency, Cram Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cram Elementary has fell 9%, going from 557 students in 2018 to 507 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 43% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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