Joshua Circle Elementary

Joshua Circle Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Hesperia, California, operated by Hesperia Unified. Current enrollment sits at 643 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Hesperia Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 23,188 students. Joshua Circle Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Joshua Circle Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder consists of 5% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Joshua Circle Elementary lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Joshua Circle Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.0%; this one comes in at 11.1%, -17.9 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) logs that median household income runs about $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Joshua Circle Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hesperia Junior High, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Joshua Circle Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 19.7%.

Joshua Circle Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joshua Circle Elementary has decreased 8%, going from 697 students in 2018 to 643 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 81% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

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