Virginia Primrose Elementary

Virginia Primrose Elementary, a compact elementary campus in Fontana, California, overseen by Fontana Unified, hosts 336 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 28% leaner than typical.

Across the 44 schools in Fontana Unified (32,735 students total), Virginia Primrose Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Virginia Primrose Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Virginia Primrose Elementary shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Virginia Primrose Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.7%, the actual is 24.2%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Bernardino County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Virginia Primrose Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Eric Birch High (Continuation), roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Virginia Primrose Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Virginia Primrose Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 25.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 445 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025.

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