East SBV Times

Out of 36,276 students enrolled in Fontana Unified School District, 8.4 percent were in ninth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	2,732	7.5
First	2,549	7
Second	2,603	7.2
Third	2,749	7.6
Fourth	2,615	7.2
Fifth	2,754	7.6
Sixth	2,834	7.8
Seventh	2,963	8.2
Eighth	2,816	7.8
Ninth	3,037	8.4
10th	2,896	8
11th	2,822	7.8
12th	2,906	8