Grapeland Elementary

Grapeland Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Etiwanda, California, operated by Etiwanda Elementary, with 620 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Grapeland Elementary sits 33% larger than that benchmark.

Etiwanda Elementary runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 13,666 students. Grapeland Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Grapeland Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 33% Asian, 15% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. That is considerably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Grapeland Elementary shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grapeland Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household income runs about $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Grapeland Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Etiwanda Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grapeland Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grapeland Elementary has contracted 3%, going from 638 students in 2018 to 620 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 21% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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