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Ramona-Alessandro Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Ramona-Alessandro Elementary
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in San Bernardino, California, part of San Bernardino City Unified, works with 502 students in grades K through 6.
San Bernardino City Unified runs 72 schools in total, collectively educating 44,080 students. Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Ramona-Alessandro Elementary shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 6% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ramona-Alessandro Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible 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 above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Ramona-Alessandro Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 24.2%; Ramona-Alessandro Elementary posts 39.2%, +15.0 points above that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Ramona-Alessandro Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Arroyo Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ramona-Alessandro Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.5%.
Ramona-Alessandro Elementary operates from a high-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ramona-Alessandro Elementary has shrank 14%, going from 582 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 78% to 88% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.
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