East SBV Times

Out of 25,045 students enrolled in Rialto Unified School District, 7.3 percent were in first-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was eighth-grade with 8.4 percent of all students.

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	1,852	7.4
First	1,831	7.3
Second	1,886	7.5
Third	1,844	7.4
Fourth	1,824	7.3
Fifth	1,994	8
Sixth	1,937	7.7
Seventh	2,056	8.2
Eighth	2,116	8.4
Ninth	1,911	7.6
10th	1,908	7.6
11th	1,919	7.7
12th	1,967	7.9