Mission Crest Elementary

Set in Hesperia, California, Mission Crest Elementary is a high-enrollment primary school, part of Hesperia Unified. It enrolls 989 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Mission Crest Elementary sits 113% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 25 schools in Hesperia Unified (23,188 students total), Mission Crest Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mission Crest Elementary lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Black, 10% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mission Crest Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mission Crest Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Mission Crest Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mission Crest Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.5%; this one comes in at 16.6%, -24.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household earnings sit near $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), Mission Crest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Summit Leadership Academy-High Desert, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mission Crest Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,007 students in 2018 compared to 989 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 66% to 76%.

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