Donald F. Bradach Elementary

Donald F. Bradach Elementary is a mid-tier primary school in Adelanto, California, one of the schools within Adelanto Elementary. The school hosts 408 students in grades K through 5.

Adelanto Elementary comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,660 students; Donald F. Bradach Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Donald F. Bradach Elementary lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Donald F. Bradach Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Donald F. Bradach Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.4%; this one comes in at 15.7%, -17.7 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Donald F. Bradach Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Victoria Magathan Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Donald F. Bradach Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 22.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Donald F. Bradach Elementary has shrank 10%, going from 453 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.