Lehigh Elementary

Lehigh Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Montclair, California, one of the schools within Ontario-Montclair, with 477 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

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

On demographics, Lehigh Elementary records that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 3% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lehigh Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Across the wider county, 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%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Lehigh Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Montclair High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lehigh Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lehigh Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lehigh Elementary has contracted 34%, going from 718 students in 2018 to 477 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Lehigh Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.