Theodore Vick Elementary, Adelanto CA

Original Research by School Decision on Theodore Vick Elementary

Theodore Vick Elementary sits on Seneca Road in Adelanto, a high desert city in San Bernardino County, and serves students from kindergarten through fifth grade within the Adelanto Elementary school district. The school draws a student body that is predominantly Hispanic, with Black students making up a meaningful secondary share and smaller proportions of white, multiracial, and Asian students. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Vick squarely in the lower-income range common to this part of the Inland Empire's desert fringe. Data on English learner enrollment and special education rates were not available in the data provided.

The picture on state assessments is one that warrants honest attention. California tests students in grades three through five on the Smarter Balanced assessment in English language arts and math, and Vick's results for the most recent school year place proficiency rates well below the state average across every tested grade and subject. In reading, fewer than one in five students at each tested grade scored at the proficient level, and fifth-grade reading was the weakest point. Math tells a similar story, with proficiency rates in the range of one in five students in third and fourth grade, falling to roughly one in ten by fifth grade. Science results at fifth grade were similarly low. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile relative to districts in San Bernardino County. That is the data as reported; a parent who wants to understand what the school is doing to move those numbers would do well to ask directly about intervention programs, reading support, and how teachers are tracking individual student growth.

Because only one year of data was available in the state assessment series, there is no trend to describe. It is not possible to say whether scores are rising, falling, or holding steady.

The enrollment is near five hundred students spread across six grade levels, making this a mid-sized elementary school for its setting. Kindergarten and fifth grade are each the largest grades. No information was available on program offerings such as gifted education, dual-language immersion, or expanded learning beyond school hours, though the district brief noted that ongoing programs like dual-language immersion and expanded learning exist within Adelanto Elementary as a district; which campuses carry which offerings was not confirmed in the data.

On the housing side, the Adelanto zip code sits at a home value level notably below the California statewide benchmark, though it has seen modest year-over-year appreciation. Rents have risen more sharply in recent months. For a family weighing cost of living against school access, the area's relative affordability compared to the broader California market is real, though rent growth is worth watching. The estimated monthly carrying cost of a home in the area is a manageable figure by California standards, though mortgage rates remain elevated nationally.

The locale brief for Adelanto returned no usable sourced detail on the town's character, employment base, or development activity before the search budget was exhausted, so those dimensions are left out rather than guessed at.

Theodore Vick is a neighborhood public elementary school in a working-class desert community, serving a student population with high economic need. Its academic results are low by state standards and by the county comparison set, and that is a fact a family should carry into any conversation with the school. The district as a whole has not surfaced recent concrete changes that would clearly signal a shift in trajectory.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 20% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 421%

School 21% · District 16% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 13% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 316%

School 16% · District 21% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 24% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 514%

School 14% · District 27% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Science

Grade 511%

School 11% · District 15% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 22% · ▲ 31 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

This schoolAdelanto Elementary, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income16%Higher-income17%1 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income30%Higher-income20%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income10%Higher-income23%13 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income18%Higher-income18%0 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income27%Higher-income29%3 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income23%Higher-income15%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income7%Higher-income16%9 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income3%Higher-income9%6 pp gap