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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Grand Terrace Elementary administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
654
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLTON JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 060939000949
Grand Terrace Elementary
12066 Vivienda Ave., Grand Terrace, CA 92313 · (909) 580-5032 · San Bernardino County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL654 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
522 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 122 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 91 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 34% larger than its 6th grade class (91).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
30.4%
CA avg 49.1% . -6.6pp since 2014
Math
22.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.8% | 18.5% | 24.0% | 45.7% |
| Math | 7.5% | 15.1% | 23.8% | 53.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.4% | 22.6% |
| 2023-24 | 26.7% | 17.7% |
| 2022-23 | 25.9% | 22.3% |
| 2021-22 | 36.5% | 22.2% |
| 2018-19 | 43.7% | 34.8% |
| 2017-18 | 44.1% | 35.4% |
| 2016-17 | 40.8% | 30.9% |
| 2015-16 | 44.0% | 35.0% |
| 2014-15 | 37.0% | 24.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Grand Terrace Elementary
Grand Terrace Elementary's state test result (24.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Terrace Elementary this school | 654 | 79.8% | 24.5% |
| Mesquite Elementary Palmdale | 582 | 79.0% | 23.4% |
| Baldy View Elementary Upland | 624 | 83.7% | 38.6% |
| Sugar Hill Elementary Moreno Valley | 629 | 82.4% | 34.3% |
| Emerson Elementary Riverside | 669 | 84.3% | 27.8% |
| Palms Elementary Perris | 671 | 84.2% | 20.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Grand Terrace Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #4,132 of 5,151 | #219 of 318 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #4,032 of 5,172 ▲ 396 | #204 of 321 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #3,956 of 5,172 ▲ 186 | #213 of 321 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.9pp | #975 of 5,116 | #35 of 318 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 654 | #993 of 5,915 | #70 of 340 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #2,514 of 5,352 | #126 of 328 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.2% | #3,659 of 5,354 | #193 of 328 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.8% | #2,203 of 5,625 | #181 of 331 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #3,308 of 3,837 | #209 of 246 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
654
+62 (+10%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 684
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 22.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 654 | 29.2 | 22.4:1 | 80% (522) |
| 2023-24 | 681 | 29.2 | 23.3:1 | 78% (531) |
| 2022-23 | 650 | 27 | 24.1:1 | 82% (531) |
| 2020-21 | 592 | 26 | 22.8:1 | 77% (453) |
| 2017-18 | 689 | 25 | 27.6:1 | 76% (524) |
| 2015-16 | 694 | 28 | 24.8:1 | 78% (542) |
| 2010-11 | 718 | N/A | N/A | 68% (485) |
| 2000-01 | 700 | 31 | 22.6:1 | 53% (373) |
| 1990-91 | 684 | 23 | 29.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grand Terrace Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (689 to 654); teachers up 17% (25 to 29.2).
About Grand Terrace Elementary
Grand Terrace Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school based in Grand Terrace, California. The school teaches kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 654 students. That puts enrollment 41% above the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Grand Terrace Elementary is a school in Colton Joint Unified. The district has 27 schools and 18,397 students.
About 79% of the student body at Grand Terrace Elementary is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 11% Black, 6% White, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 55% of San Bernardino County residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 36% means there is a 36% chance two randomly chosen students at Grand Terrace Elementary are from different groups.
There are 29.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 22.4:1. The ratio is within a point of the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Of all students at Grand Terrace Elementary, 80% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Grand Terrace Elementary holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 12% of California public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Grand Terrace Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 24.5% actual against 32.8% predicted.
In San Bernardino County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $85,478 a year, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Grand Terrace Elementary, San Bernardino County has 583 public schools.
The closest school to Grand Terrace Elementary is Terrace Hills Middle, located about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Grand Terrace Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
In 2020-21, Grand Terrace Elementary enrolled 592 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 654.
Grand Terrace Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Colton Joint Unified
- Bloomington HighHigh · 1,794 students
- Colton HighHigh · 1,729 students
- Grand Terrace High Sch at the Ray Abril Jr. Edal ComplexHigh · 1,647 students
- Colton MiddleMiddle · 870 students
- Terrace Hills MiddleMiddle · 852 students
- Joe BacaMiddle · 705 students
Other schools in Grand Terrace
- Grand Terrace High Sch at the Ray Abril Jr. Edal ComplexHigh · 1,647 students
- Terrace Hills MiddleMiddle · 852 students
- Terrace View ElementaryElementary · 625 students
Nearby schools
- Terrace Hills Middle0.7 mi · 852
- Terrace View Elementary0.9 mi · 625
- Grand Terrace High Sch at the Ray Abril Jr. Edal Complex1.1 mi · 1,647
- Highgrove Elementary1.4 mi · 848
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary1.6 mi · 465
- Mojave River Academy - National Trails1.7 mi · 801
Frequently asked questions
About Grand Terrace ElementaryHow many students attend Grand Terrace Elementary?
Grand Terrace Elementary enrolls approximately 654 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Grand Terrace Elementary serve?
Grand Terrace Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Grand Terrace Elementary have?
Grand Terrace Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.4:1.
How diverse is Grand Terrace Elementary?
Grand Terrace Elementary reports a student body of 6% White, 79% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Grand Terrace Elementary?
Grand Terrace Elementary is overseen by Colton Joint Unified in San Bernardino County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.