Barton Elementary

Barton Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in San Bernardino, California, operated by San Bernardino City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 485 students spanning grades K through 6.

Barton Elementary is one of 72 schools operated by San Bernardino City Unified, a district that caters to 44,080 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Barton Elementary reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 21% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Barton Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barton Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.3%; this one delivers 13.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Barton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez PREP Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barton Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barton Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.6%.

Barton Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 499 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Barton Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.