Wildwood Elementary

Wildwood Elementary is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Yucaipa, California, part of Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified, teacheing 607 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Wildwood Elementary sits 31% above that benchmark.

Within Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified, which oversees 13 schools and 8,519 students, Wildwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Wildwood Elementary logs that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 41% White, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Wildwood Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wildwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.1%; this one delivers 41.4%.

In the area at large, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Wildwood Elementary is one.

Green Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wildwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Wildwood Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 687 students in 2018 compared to 607 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 61% to 41% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.