Onaga Elementary

Onaga Elementary, a mid-tier elementary school in Yucca Valley, California, one of the schools within Morongo Unified, teaches 586 students, covering grades K through 6. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Morongo Unified comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,225 students; Onaga Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Onaga Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 44% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Onaga Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.7%; actual is 24.6%, a gap of -18.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, San Bernardino County reports that median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Onaga Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Yucca Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 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), Onaga Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 708 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 29% to 45%. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

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