Barstow Fine Arts Academy

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Barstow, California, Barstow Fine Arts Academy hosts 405 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Barstow Unified.

Barstow Fine Arts Academy is one of 13 schools operated by Barstow Unified, a district that serves 6,118 students overall.

On demographics, Barstow Fine Arts Academy logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 15% White, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Barstow Fine Arts Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.1%; actual is 13.7%, a gap of -31.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Barstow Fine Arts Academy is one.

Henderson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barstow Fine Arts Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

On the community side, members of the Barstow Fine Arts Academy community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.