El Camino Elementary

El Camino Elementary, a moderately sized K-5 school in Ontario, California, run under Ontario-Montclair, educates 476 students, covering grades K through 6.

Ontario-Montclair runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,640 students. El Camino Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, El Camino Elementary reports that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Black, 5% White, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, El Camino Elementary lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Camino Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of +7.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put 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), El Camino Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Buena Vista Arts-Integrated is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Camino Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.1%.

El Camino Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 434 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 88% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.