Graciano Gomez Elementary

As a medium-sized K-5 school in San Bernardino, California, Graciano Gomez Elementary serves 481 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within San Bernardino City Unified.

Graciano Gomez Elementary is one of 72 schools operated by San Bernardino City Unified, a district that teaches 44,080 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Graciano Gomez Elementary shows that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 5% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Graciano Gomez Elementary reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Graciano Gomez Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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, Graciano Gomez Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 18.2%, a residual of -3.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 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 Graciano Gomez Elementary is one.

Mt. Vernon Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Graciano Gomez Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Graciano Gomez Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 80% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.