Ramona Junior High

Located at 4575 Walnut Ave., in Chino, California, Ramona Junior High is a close-knit junior high that works with 417 students (grades 7 through 8), operated by Chino Valley Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Ramona Junior High sits 37% below that benchmark.

Across the 35 schools in Chino Valley Unified (25,548 students total), Ramona Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ramona Junior High lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Ramona Junior High reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Ramona Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ramona Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Ramona Junior High is one campus in the mix.

Newman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ramona Junior High at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 35.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Ramona Junior High's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 536 (now 417). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.