Lytle Creek Elementary

Lytle Creek Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in San Bernardino, California, overseen by San Bernardino City Unified, teacheing 525 students in grades K through 6.

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

On the student-mix side, Lytle Creek Elementary reports that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lytle Creek Elementary logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lytle Creek Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Lytle Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lytle Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 17.3%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for San Bernardino County shows 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 Lytle Creek Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Richardson PREP HI Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lytle Creek Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 660 students in 2018 compared to 525 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 88% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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