Crestline Elementary

Crestline Elementary, a cozy elementary school in Barstow, California, operated by Barstow Unified, works with 371 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 20% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Barstow Unified comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,118 students; Crestline Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Crestline Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 37% Black, 8% White, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Crestline Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.2%; actual is 6.7%, a gap of -18.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Crestline Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Barstow Junior High, roughly 0.7 miles away. 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), Crestline Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 16.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crestline Elementary has ticked down 45%, going from 671 students in 2018 to 371 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 29.2:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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