Melva Davis Academy of Excellence

Located at 15831 Diamond Rd., in Victorville, California, Melva Davis Academy of Excellence is a reasonably sized intermediate school that serves 833 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Adelanto Elementary. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Melva Davis Academy of Excellence is one of 15 schools operated by Adelanto Elementary, a district that caters to 7,660 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Melva Davis Academy of Excellence lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Melva Davis Academy of Excellence qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Melva Davis Academy of Excellence sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.2%; actual is 29.4%, a gap of -15.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Melva Davis Academy of Excellence is one campus in the mix.

West Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Melva Davis Academy of Excellence comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 830 students in 2018 compared to 833 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 16% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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