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Grace Yokley Junior High
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Grace Yokley Junior High
Grace Yokley Junior High operates as a moderately sized middle-grades school in Ontario, California, part of Mountain View Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 606 students spanning grades 7 through 8.
Mountain View Elementary runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,773 students. Grace Yokley Junior High is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Grace Yokley Junior High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%; the rest is composed of 11% Asian, 9% White, 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 66% of students at Grace Yokley Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grace Yokley Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 44.8%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put median household income runs about $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Grace Yokley Junior High is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).
Nearest neighbor: Mountain View Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grace Yokley Junior High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grace Yokley Junior High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.9%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grace Yokley Junior High has ticked down 31%, going from 884 students in 2018 to 606 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 6% to 11%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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