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Enrollment
608
Elementary
DISTRICT 567 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIALTO UNIFIED·NCES 063237008949
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary
1060 West Etiwanda Ave., Rialto, CA 92376 · (909) 820-7943 · San Bernardino County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL608 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of California public elementary schools
- CTest 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.
- AThree-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
23.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
500 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 134 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (134) is 43% larger than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
42.0%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.0pp since 2014
Math
26.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 19.2% | 22.7% | 23.1% | 35.0% |
| Math | 9.6% | 16.5% | 30.6% | 43.3% |
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 | 42.0% | 26.1% |
| 2023-24 | 32.2% | 23.0% |
| 2022-23 | 33.1% | 22.7% |
| 2021-22 | 31.9% | 16.4% |
| 2018-19 | 44.1% | 34.4% |
| 2017-18 | 48.5% | 33.7% |
| 2016-17 | 39.2% | 25.6% |
| 2015-16 | 34.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 33.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Helen L. Dollahan Elementary
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen L. Dollahan Elementary this school | 608 | 82.2% | 30.7% |
| Georgia F. Morris Elementary Colton | 604 | 81.5% | 36.7% |
| Samuel W. Simpson Elementary Rialto | 638 | 82.4% | 56.3% |
| Joshua Circle Elementary Hesperia | 643 | 84.8% | 11.5% |
| Pittman Charter Stockton | 619 | 85.8% | 28.6% |
| Belvedere Elementary Highland | 557 | 83.7% | 28.5% |
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 Helen L. Dollahan Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #3,422 of 5,151 | #158 of 318 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #3,648 of 5,172 ▲ 195 | #174 of 321 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #2,728 of 5,172 ▲ 804 | #121 of 321 ▲ 58 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.9pp | #630 of 5,116 | #37 of 318 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 608 | #1,330 of 5,915 | #99 of 340 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.4:1 | #3,275 of 5,352 | #187 of 328 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.4% | #4,204 of 5,354 | #251 of 328 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.2% | #1,948 of 5,625 | #167 of 331 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.1% | #2,808 of 3,837 | #171 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
608
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 950
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
was 25.5:1
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 | 608 | 26 | 23.4:1 | 82% (500) |
| 2023-24 | 623 | 27 | 23.1:1 | 84% (526) |
| 2022-23 | 602 | 25 | 24.1:1 | 80% (479) |
| 2020-21 | 612 | 24 | 25.5:1 | 85% (518) |
| 2017-18 | 669 | 25.1 | 26.7:1 | 83% (555) |
| 2015-16 | 718 | 24 | 29.9:1 | 83% (595) |
| 2010-11 | 654 | N/A | N/A | 86% (563) |
| 2000-01 | 862 | 41 | 21.0:1 | 65% (564) |
| 1990-91 | 950 | 34 | 27.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Helen L. Dollahan Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (669 to 608); teachers up 4% (25.1 to 26).
About Helen L. Dollahan Elementary
In Rialto, California, Helen L. Dollahan Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 608 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 31% higher than the average for elementary schools in California, which is about 465.
Rialto Unified counts 23,067 students in its 29 schools, and Helen L. Dollahan Elementary is one of them.
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary enrolls a student body that is 87% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 6% Black, 3% White, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show San Bernardino County is about 55% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Helen L. Dollahan Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 24%.
The count of teachers at Helen L. Dollahan Elementary is 26 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 23.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, lower than at this school. Around 82% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The 74% average for public schools in San Bernardino County is 8 points lower.
allk12 grades Helen L. Dollahan Elementary a C+. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Helen L. Dollahan Elementary, the prediction is 31.4% and the result is 30.7%.
According to the American Community Survey, in San Bernardino County, median household income is about $85,478, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. A total of 583 public schools operate in San Bernardino County, serving about 393,648 students.
The nearest other public school, George H. Dunn Elementary, is about 0.7 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Helen L. Dollahan Elementary. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Helen L. Dollahan Elementary is 2nd on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Helen L. Dollahan Elementary as Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, Helen L. Dollahan Elementary enrolled 612; in 2024-25, 608. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 23.4:1, from 25.5:1.
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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 Rialto Unified
- Rialto HighHigh · 2,623 students
- Eisenhower HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Wilmer Amina Carter HighHigh · 1,951 students
- William G. Jehue MiddleMiddle · 1,444 students
- Rialto MiddleMiddle · 1,017 students
- Warren F. Frisbie MiddleMiddle · 1,000 students
Other schools in Rialto
- Rialto HighHigh · 2,623 students
- Eisenhower HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Wilmer Amina Carter HighHigh · 1,951 students
- Rialto MiddleMiddle · 1,017 students
- Warren F. Frisbie MiddleMiddle · 1,000 students
- Ethel Kucera MiddleMiddle · 978 students
Nearby schools
- George H. Dunn Elementary0.7 mi · 609
- Virginia Primrose Elementary0.8 mi · 336
- Eisenhower High0.9 mi · 2,075
- Charlotte N. Werner Elementary1.1 mi · 739
- Rialto Middle1.1 mi · 1,017
- Locust Elementary1.1 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Helen L. Dollahan ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Helen L. Dollahan Elementary?
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary enrolls approximately 608 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Helen L. Dollahan Elementary serve?
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Helen L. Dollahan Elementary?
Approximately 23.4:1 students per teacher at Helen L. Dollahan Elementary.
How diverse is Helen L. Dollahan Elementary?
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 87% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Helen L. Dollahan Elementary public or private?
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rialto Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.