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What's the biggest difference between Randall Pepper Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
455
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FONTANA UNIFIED·NCES 061392001600
Randall Pepper Elementary
16613 Randall Ave., Fontana, CA 92335 · (909) 357-5730 · San Bernardino County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
19.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
419 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 87 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · 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
26.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.3pp since 2014
Math
15.7%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.7% | 15.6% | 18.3% | 55.4% |
| Math | 4.4% | 11.3% | 24.4% | 59.8% |
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 | 26.3% | 15.7% |
| 2023-24 | 19.8% | 13.8% |
| 2022-23 | 19.8% | 13.2% |
| 2021-22 | 21.8% | 11.1% |
| 2018-19 | 29.8% | 15.7% |
| 2017-18 | 24.4% | 10.9% |
| 2016-17 | 19.0% | 9.9% |
| 2015-16 | 20.0% | 11.0% |
| 2014-15 | 17.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
18.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Randall Pepper Elementary
Randall Pepper Elementary's state test result (18.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Randall Pepper Elementary this school | 455 | 92.1% | 18.7% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Lynwood | 445 | 91.9% | 21.6% |
| Casa Loma Elementary Bakersfield | 424 | 92.7% | 15.2% |
| John C. Fremont Elementary Corcoran | 467 | 92.9% | 23.1% |
| Dolores Huerta Elementary Stockton | 453 | 91.2% | 14.1% |
| Mark Keppel Paramount | 426 | 91.1% | 30.1% |
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 Randall Pepper Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #4,680 of 5,151 | #265 of 318 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #4,681 of 5,172 ▲ 88 | #268 of 321 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #4,347 of 5,172 ▲ 408 | #248 of 321 ▲ 27 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.6pp | #1,784 of 5,116 | #127 of 318 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #2,964 of 5,915 | #231 of 340 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #699 of 5,352 | #24 of 328 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.4% | #4,685 of 5,354 | #299 of 328 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.1% | #828 of 5,625 | #49 of 331 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.2% | #973 of 3,837 | #51 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
455
-72 (-14%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 1,097
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 455 | 23.4 | 19.4:1 | 92% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 480 | 25.8 | 18.6:1 | 92% (441) |
| 2022-23 | 487 | 25.9 | 18.8:1 | 89% (434) |
| 2020-21 | 527 | 26 | 20.3:1 | 89% (470) |
| 2017-18 | 600 | 24.5 | 24.5:1 | 88% (528) |
| 2015-16 | 658 | 25 | 26.3:1 | 90% (589) |
| 2010-11 | 755 | N/A | N/A | 89% (670) |
| 2000-01 | 693 | 36 | 19.3:1 | 97% (673) |
| 1990-91 | 1,097 | 44 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Randall Pepper Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (600 to 455); teachers down 5% (24.5 to 23.4).
About Randall Pepper Elementary
As a mid-sized elementary school, Randall Pepper Elementary serves students in Fontana, California. Its enrollment is 455 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.
Randall Pepper Elementary reports to Fontana Unified, which has 44 schools and 32,735 students.
Hispanic students account for 92% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% Black and 2% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 55%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 15, compared with 70 nationally.
Randall Pepper Elementary has 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 19.4:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 92%. That is higher than the 74% average for public schools in San Bernardino County.
Among California public elementary schools, Randall Pepper Elementary outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Randall Pepper Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 18.7% is 6.8 points below the 25.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census data for San Bernardino County show the median household earns about $85,478 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Randall Pepper Elementary, San Bernardino County has 583 public schools.
Randall Pepper Elementary is about 0.5 miles from Cypress Elementary, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Randall Pepper Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school shrank from 527 students in 2020-21 to 455 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 Fontana Unified
- Summit HighHigh · 2,725 students
- Fontana HighHigh · 2,534 students
- Fontana A. B. Miller HighHigh · 1,950 students
- Jurupa Hills HighHigh · 1,739 students
- Henry J. Kaiser HighHigh · 1,660 students
- Wayne Ruble MiddleMiddle · 1,394 students
Other schools in Fontana
- Summit HighHigh · 2,725 students
- Fontana HighHigh · 2,534 students
- Options for Youth-ActonHigh · 2,171 students
- Fontana A. B. Miller HighHigh · 1,950 students
- Jurupa Hills HighHigh · 1,739 students
- Henry J. Kaiser HighHigh · 1,660 students
Nearby schools
- Cypress Elementary0.5 mi · 572
- Date Elementary0.5 mi · 533
- Fontana High0.7 mi · 2,534
- Citrus Elementary0.8 mi · 596
- Harry S. Truman Middle0.8 mi · 883
- Palmetto Elementary0.9 mi · 577
Frequently asked questions
About Randall Pepper ElementaryHow large is Randall Pepper Elementary?
Randall Pepper Elementary enrolls approximately 455 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Randall Pepper Elementary serve?
Randall Pepper Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Randall Pepper Elementary?
Approximately 19.4:1 students per teacher at Randall Pepper Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Randall Pepper Elementary?
Student demographics at Randall Pepper Elementary are roughly 2% White, 92% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Randall Pepper Elementary in?
Randall Pepper Elementary is part of Fontana Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.