[2] Lucerne Valley Elementary School, built in 1952, serves grades K–5.
Lucerne Valley Middle School was built in 1986 and formerly served grades 6–8.
The Lucerne Valley Unified School District has had difficulty circa 2015 with financial issues,[4][5] and the 2013 test scores lower than average test scores compared to San Bernardino County schools,.
[6] The school district reported a student population of fewer than 800 pupils as of September 2015.
Ordinarily the State of California would increase funding for the district for adding students, but such money did not come.