Juniper Elementary

As a roomy primary school in Hesperia, California, Juniper Elementary educates 761 students from grades K through 6, operated by Hesperia Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Juniper Elementary sits 64% above that benchmark.

Hesperia Unified comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 23,188 students; Juniper Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Juniper Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest reads as 10% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at Juniper Elementary qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Juniper Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 15.7%, a residual of -13.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 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), Juniper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Juniper Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Juniper Elementary has rose 11%, going from 683 students in 2018 to 761 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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