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Kingston Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About 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 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.9%; this one delivers 21.1%.
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%.
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