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What's the most underrated thing about Ramona-Alessandro Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
502
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN BERNARDINO CITY UNIFIED·NCES 063417005379
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary
670 Ramona Ave., San Bernardino, CA 92411 · (909) 388-6300 · San Bernardino County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
466 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 103 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (103) is 78% larger than its 6th grade class (58).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
45.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +15.4pp since 2014
Math
29.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +9.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 16.3% | 29.1% | 24.4% | 30.2% |
| Math | 12.4% | 16.7% | 30.2% | 40.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.4% | 29.1% |
| 2023-24 | 42.3% | 33.9% |
| 2022-23 | 41.3% | 34.2% |
| 2021-22 | 41.2% | 28.8% |
| 2018-19 | 48.4% | 36.5% |
| 2017-18 | 50.6% | 38.2% |
| 2016-17 | 46.1% | 33.8% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 28.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 20.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ramona-Alessandro Elementary
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary's state test result (38.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramona-Alessandro Elementary this school | 502 | 92.8% | 38.0% |
| Serrano Elementary Moreno Valley | 496 | 94.4% | 22.7% |
| Tumbleweed Elementary Palmdale | 502 | 95.0% | 22.4% |
| Aspire East Palo Alto Charter East Palo Alto | 496 | 90.7% | N/A |
| Winn A. Myers Elementary Rialto | 461 | 91.5% | 31.0% |
| Wilson Elementary San Bernardino | 449 | 92.4% | 22.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ramona-Alessandro Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #2,664 of 5,151 | #109 of 318 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #3,321 of 5,172 ▼ 630 | #146 of 321 ▼ 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #2,423 of 5,172 ▲ 66 | #103 of 321 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.2pp | #2,588 of 5,116 | #194 of 318 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #2,413 of 5,915 | #202 of 340 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #979 of 5,352 | #38 of 328 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.3% | #4,348 of 5,354 | #263 of 328 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.8% | #728 of 5,625 | #40 of 331 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.7% | #2,192 of 3,837 | #138 of 246 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
502
-54 (-10%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 827
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 22.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 502 | 25 | 20.1:1 | 93% (466) |
| 2023-24 | 471 | 22.5 | 20.9:1 | 94% (443) |
| 2022-23 | 508 | 24 | 21.2:1 | 90% (456) |
| 2020-21 | 556 | 25 | 22.2:1 | 89% (495) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 25 | 23.3:1 | 88% (514) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 24 | 24.7:1 | 92% (546) |
| 2010-11 | 677 | N/A | N/A | 92% (624) |
| 2000-01 | 810 | 39 | 20.8:1 | 82% (667) |
| 1990-91 | 827 | 28 | 29.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ramona-Alessandro Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (582 to 502); teachers unchanged (25 to 25).
About Ramona-Alessandro Elementary
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of San Bernardino, California. Enrollment stands at 502 students, covering kindergarten through 6.
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is one school in San Bernardino City Unified, a system of 72 schools with 44,080 students.
Hispanic students account for 88% of the school's enrollment. Other reported shares: 6% Black and 2% White. San Bernardino County's residents are about 55% Hispanic, 33 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 21% means there is a 21% chance two randomly chosen students at Ramona-Alessandro Elementary are from different groups.
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary reported 25 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 20.1:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. Roughly 93% of students at Ramona-Alessandro Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 74% average among public schools in San Bernardino County.
Among California public elementary schools, Ramona-Alessandro Elementary outscored 64%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
In California, Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 38.0% actual against a predicted 25.1%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for San Bernardino County show that median household income comes to about $85,478, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 583, with about 393,648 students.
Of the public schools around it, Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is closest to Arroyo Valley High, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Ramona-Alessandro Elementary places 1st out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
Locale data from NCES put Ramona-Alessandro Elementary inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 556 to 502. Students per teacher dropped from 22.2 in 2020-21 to 20.1 in 2024-25.
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San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Bernardino City Unified
- Cajon HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Arroyo Valley HighHigh · 2,692 students
- Indian Springs HighHigh · 1,810 students
- San Bernardino HighHigh · 1,440 students
- San Gorgonio HighHigh · 1,431 students
- Pacific HighHigh · 1,246 students
Other schools in San Bernardino
- Cajon HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Arroyo Valley HighHigh · 2,692 students
- San Bernardino County Special EducationCombined · 1,860 students
- Indian Springs HighHigh · 1,810 students
- San Bernardino HighHigh · 1,440 students
- San Gorgonio HighHigh · 1,431 students
Nearby schools
- Arroyo Valley High0.5 mi · 2,692
- Mt. Vernon Elementary0.6 mi · 471
- Graciano Gomez Elementary0.7 mi · 481
- Woodward Leadership Academy0.7 mi · 69
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle0.8 mi · 581
- Rio Vista Elementary1.1 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About Ramona-Alessandro ElementaryHow many students attend Ramona-Alessandro Elementary?
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary enrolls approximately 502 students in grades KG-06.
Is Ramona-Alessandro Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Ramona-Alessandro Elementary have?
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Ramona-Alessandro Elementary?
Student demographics at Ramona-Alessandro Elementary are roughly 2% White, 88% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Ramona-Alessandro Elementary in?
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is part of San Bernardino City Unified.
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