Oasis Elementary

Set in Twentynine Palms, California, Oasis Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school, operated by Morongo Unified. It instructs 461 students across grades K through 6.

Morongo Unified runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,225 students. Oasis Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Oasis Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 32% White, 14% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Oasis Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.9%; actual is 20.3%, a gap of -14.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Bernardino County shows 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%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Oasis Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Twentynine Palms High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oasis Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oasis Elementary has contracted 25%, going from 616 students in 2018 to 461 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 31% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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