Vista Grande Elementary

As a tight-knit K-5 school in Ontario, California, Vista Grande Elementary hosts 358 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Ontario-Montclair. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Ontario-Montclair runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,640 students. Vista Grande Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Vista Grande Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 8% White, 6% Black, 6% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Vista Grande Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.1%; actual is 51.0%, +17.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that median household earnings sit near $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Vista Grande Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ontario High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vista Grande Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Vista Grande Elementary's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 358). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

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