Hawthorne Elementary

Set in Ontario, California, Hawthorne Elementary is a mid-sized primary school, part of Ontario-Montclair. It serves 549 students across grades K through 6.

Across the 33 schools in Ontario-Montclair (17,640 students total), Hawthorne Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Hawthorne Elementary logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 7% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at Hawthorne Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hawthorne Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.2%; this one delivers 33.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) logs that median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Hawthorne Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Citrus Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hawthorne Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.0%.

Hawthorne Elementary operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 549 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.