Barstow Junior High

Barstow Junior High operates as a medium-sized intermediate school in Barstow, California, one of the schools within Barstow Unified. Current enrollment sits at 646 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Barstow Junior High is one of 13 schools operated by Barstow Unified, a district that caters to 6,118 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Barstow Junior High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder comes out to 21% Black, 13% White, 7% multiracial. Compared to San Bernardino County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 80% of students at Barstow Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Barstow Junior High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.8%; actual is 4.5%, a gap of -27.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household earnings sit near $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Barstow Junior High is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Barstow Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Barstow Junior High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 16.4%.

Barstow Junior High operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Barstow Junior High's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 693 (now 646). Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Barstow Junior High typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.