Cypress School of the Arts

Cypress School of the Arts operates as a large primary school in Hesperia, California, run under Hesperia Unified. Current enrollment sits at 713 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Cypress School of the Arts sits 53% bigger than that benchmark.

Hesperia Unified comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 23,188 students; Cypress School of the Arts is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cypress School of the Arts shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest reads as 16% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cypress School of the Arts falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.0%; this one comes in at 27.3%, -14.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding 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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Cypress School of the Arts is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hesperia Junior High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cypress School of the Arts. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cypress School of the Arts ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 17.9%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cypress School of the Arts has fell 16%, going from 847 students in 2018 to 713 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 66% to 77%. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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