Date Elementary

Date Elementary operates as a medium-sized primary school in Fontana, California, run under Fontana Unified. Current enrollment sits at 533 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 44 schools in Fontana Unified (32,735 students total), Date Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Date Elementary shows that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Date Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Date Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Oleander Elementary, roughly 0.4 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), Date Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.2%.

Date Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 693 students in 2018 compared to 533 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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