Highland Pacific Elementary

Highland Pacific Elementary is one of the cozy elementary-level communitys in Highland, California, one of the schools within San Bernardino City Unified, with 285 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within San Bernardino City Unified, which oversees 72 schools and 44,080 students, Highland Pacific Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Highland Pacific Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Highland Pacific 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%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Highland Pacific Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 26.2%; actual is 9.4%, a gap of -16.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put 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), Highland Pacific Elementary is one campus in the mix.

San Andreas High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Pacific Elementary. On composite proficiency, Highland Pacific Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highland Pacific Elementary has edged down 22%, going from 364 students in 2018 to 285 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 52% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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