Sierra Lakes Elementary

Sierra Lakes Elementary is one of the expansive elementary schools in Fontana, California, overseen by Fontana Unified, with 902 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Sierra Lakes Elementary sits 94% bigger than that benchmark.

Fontana Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 32,735 students; Sierra Lakes Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sierra Lakes Elementary shows that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 17% Asian, 13% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial. Compared to San Bernardino County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sierra Lakes Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Sierra Lakes Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Sierra Lakes Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Summit High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sierra Lakes Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sierra Lakes Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 34%: 671 students in 2018 compared to 902 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 12% to 17%. Class-load math has fell: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Sierra Lakes Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.