Pinon Hills Elementary

Pinon Hills Elementary, a moderately sized elementary-level community in Pinon Hills, California, one of the schools within Snowline Joint Unified, instructs 566 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 465.

Within Snowline Joint Unified, which oversees 12 schools and 8,074 students, Pinon Hills Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Pinon Hills Elementary reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 27% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Pinon Hills Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pinon Hills Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.3%; this one comes in at 12.6%, -16.7 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Pinon Hills Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Nearest neighbor: Eagle Summit Community Day, around 4.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Pinon Hills Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pinon Hills Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pinon Hills Elementary has rose 23%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 566 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 43% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.