West Randall Elementary

West Randall Elementary is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Fontana, California, one of the schools within Fontana Unified, teacheing 304 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so West Randall Elementary sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

West Randall Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Fontana Unified, a district that teaches 32,735 students overall.

Looking at the student body, West Randall Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% White, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, West Randall Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting West Randall Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, West Randall Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 26.6%; actual is 9.0%, a gap of -17.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) logs that 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%. West Randall Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

The closest other public school is Beech Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Randall Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Randall Elementary at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 34%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 304 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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