Kingsley Elementary

Located at 5625 Kingsley St., in Montclair, California, Kingsley Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus that instructs 494 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Ontario-Montclair.

Ontario-Montclair runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,640 students. Kingsley Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Kingsley Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% White, 2% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kingsley Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Kingsley Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Kingsley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the broader community, San Bernardino County reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Kingsley Elementary is one.

Vernon Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kingsley Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kingsley Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 624 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 today.

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