El Mirage

El Mirage is a K-5 school of minimally staffed scale in Adelanto, California, part of Adelanto Elementary, educateing 128 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Adelanto Elementary runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,660 students. El Mirage is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, El Mirage shows that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 9% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, El Mirage has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting El Mirage tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at El Mirage qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, El Mirage falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.0%; this one comes in at 11.3%, -21.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. El Mirage is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Vista San Gabriel Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, El Mirage comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 18.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 134 students in 2018 compared to 128 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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