Kingston Elementary

Kingston Elementary operates as a large elementary campus in Hesperia, California, operated by Hesperia Unified. Current enrollment sits at 808 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 74% above the state mean of about 465.

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

In terms of who attends, Kingston Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kingston Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.1%; this one comes in at 19.4%, -14.7 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, San Bernardino County reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Kingston Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ranchero Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kingston Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.1%.

Kingston Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kingston Elementary's enrollment has rose 18% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 808). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 50% to 76%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Kingston Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.