Yucca Loma Elementary

Located at 21351 Yucca Loma Rd., in Apple Valley, California, Yucca Loma Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that enrolls 616 students (grades K through 6), part of Apple Valley Unified. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Apple Valley Unified, which oversees 14 schools and 13,613 students, Yucca Loma Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Yucca Loma Elementary logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 15% White, 9% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yucca Loma Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.8%; this one delivers 18.4%.

In the broader community, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Yucca Loma Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

High Desert Premier Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Yucca Loma Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 23.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 590 students in 2018 compared to 616 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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