Yucca Mesa Elementary

Located at 3380 Avalon Ave., in Yucca Valley, California, Yucca Mesa Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that serves 401 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Morongo Unified.

Across the 16 schools in Morongo Unified (7,225 students total), Yucca Mesa Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Yucca Mesa Elementary shows that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 33% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Yucca Mesa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the surrounding 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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Yucca Mesa Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Black Rock Alternative/Continuation, around 4.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Yucca Mesa Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yucca Mesa Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.9%.

Yucca Mesa Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 416 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 70% to 57%.

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