Irwin Academy of Performing Arts

Irwin Academy of Performing Arts, a moderately sized elementary school in Victorville, California, part of Victor Elementary, instructs 594 students, covering grades K through 6. That puts it 28% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Victor Elementary comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 12,303 students; Irwin Academy of Performing Arts is among them.

In terms of who attends, Irwin Academy of Performing Arts records that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Irwin Academy of Performing Arts records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Irwin Academy of Performing Arts performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.9%, the actual is 15.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household income runs about $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Irwin Academy of Performing Arts is one.

The closest other public school is Victor Valley High, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Irwin Academy of Performing Arts. On composite proficiency, Irwin Academy of Performing Arts comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

Irwin Academy of Performing Arts operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Irwin Academy of Performing Arts's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 688 (now 594). Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 68% across the same window.

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