Monterey Elementary

As an intimate elementary-level community in San Bernardino, California, Monterey Elementary instructs 372 students from grades K through 6, overseen by San Bernardino City Unified.

Monterey Elementary is one of 72 schools operated by San Bernardino City Unified, a district that instructs 44,080 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Monterey Elementary logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Black, 3% Asian, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Monterey Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 9.8%, a residual of -12.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Monterey Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Savant Preparatory Academy of Business 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monterey Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 19.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 28%: 516 students in 2018 compared to 372 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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