Parkside Elementary

Parkside Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in San Bernardino, California, part of San Bernardino City Unified, teaches 485 students, covering grades K through 6.

San Bernardino City Unified runs 72 schools in total, collectively educating 44,080 students. Parkside Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parkside Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder comes out to 9% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Parkside Elementary logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Parkside Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Parkside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.0%.

Around the school, San Bernardino County reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Parkside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Golden Valley Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Parkside Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Parkside Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkside Elementary has decreased 10%, going from 541 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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