Howard Cattle Elementary

Howard Cattle Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Chino, California, part of Chino Valley Unified. The school works with 594 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Howard Cattle Elementary sits 28% above that benchmark.

Within Chino Valley Unified, which oversees 35 schools and 25,548 students, Howard Cattle Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Howard Cattle Elementary logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 12% White, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Howard Cattle Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Howard Cattle Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Howard Cattle Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.5%; this one delivers 38.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Howard Cattle Elementary is one.

Edwin Rhodes Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Howard Cattle Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 725 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 22% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 in 2025.

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