Dolores Huerta International Academy

Dolores Huerta International Academy is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Fontana, California, run under Fontana Unified, with 639 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Fontana Unified runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 32,735 students. Dolores Huerta International Academy is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Dolores Huerta International Academy shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 83% 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 above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dolores Huerta International Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for San Bernardino County shows 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 Dolores Huerta International Academy is one.

South Tamarind Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dolores Huerta International Academy. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dolores Huerta International Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.9%.

Dolores Huerta International Academy operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 46%: 438 students in 2018 compared to 639 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 92% to 98% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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