Lankershim Elementary

Lankershim Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Highland, California, run under San Bernardino City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 551 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 72 schools in San Bernardino City Unified (44,080 students total), Lankershim Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Lankershim Elementary logs that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 9% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Lankershim Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.6%; this one delivers 19.0%.

In the surrounding community, 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), Lankershim Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Warm Springs Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lankershim Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lankershim Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.8%.

Lankershim Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lankershim Elementary has contracted 24%, going from 727 students in 2018 to 551 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 77% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.