Dunlap Elementary

Dunlap Elementary operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Yucaipa, California, run under Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 382 students spanning grades K through 5.

Dunlap Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified, a district that educates 8,519 students overall.

Demographically, Dunlap Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Dunlap Elementary shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dunlap Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 27.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Dunlap Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Yucaipa High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dunlap Elementary. On composite proficiency, Dunlap Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 393 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 30% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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