Grand Terrace Elementary

Grand Terrace Elementary operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Grand Terrace, California, run under Colton Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 654 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Grand Terrace Elementary sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Grand Terrace Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Colton Joint Unified, a district that teaches 18,397 students overall.

On demographics, Grand Terrace Elementary lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 11% Black, 6% White, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grand Terrace Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.9%; this one delivers 22.5%.

Zooming out to the county, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Grand Terrace Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Terrace Hills Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Grand Terrace Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grand Terrace Elementary has ticked down 5%, going from 689 students in 2018 to 654 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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