Ridgeview Elementary

Located at 11021 Sunnyside Dr., in Yucaipa, California, Ridgeview Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 567 students (grades K through 5), run under Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% larger than typical.

Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,519 students. Ridgeview Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ridgeview Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 44% White, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ridgeview Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ridgeview Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Ridgeview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate 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%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Ridgeview Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Park View Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ridgeview Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 710 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.