Rancho Verde Elementary

As a large K-5 school in Apple Valley, California, Rancho Verde Elementary teaches 748 students from grades K through 6, operated by Apple Valley Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rancho Verde Elementary sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

Rancho Verde Elementary is one of 14 schools operated by Apple Valley Unified, a district that enrolls 13,613 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Rancho Verde Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder breaks down as 17% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rancho Verde Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Rancho Verde Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rancho Verde Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.1%; Rancho Verde Elementary posts 14.0%, -15.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Rancho Verde Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

The closest other public school is Granite Hills High, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rancho Verde Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rancho Verde Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 22.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 8%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 748 in 2025.

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