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What do you wish you knew before starting at Bing Wong Elementary?
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Enrollment
581
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN BERNARDINO CITY UNIFIED·NCES 063417012181
Bing Wong Elementary
1250 East Ninth St., San Bernardino, CA 92410 · (909) 888-1500 · San Bernardino County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL581 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
557 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 14% larger than its 6th grade class (86).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
23.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.1pp since 2014
Math
19.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +11.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.3% | 16.8% | 30.8% | 46.1% |
| Math | 6.5% | 13.3% | 27.8% | 52.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.1% | 19.8% |
| 2023-24 | 18.9% | 15.7% |
| 2022-23 | 18.3% | 18.0% |
| 2021-22 | 20.2% | 12.3% |
| 2018-19 | 25.7% | 15.6% |
| 2017-18 | 26.2% | 15.9% |
| 2016-17 | 23.6% | 16.1% |
| 2015-16 | 25.0% | 14.0% |
| 2014-15 | 17.0% | 8.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bing Wong Elementary
Bing Wong Elementary's state test result (19.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bing Wong Elementary this school | 581 | 95.9% | 19.3% |
| One Hundred Twenty-Second Street Elementary Los Angeles | 574 | 96.0% | 44.0% |
| Peres Elementary Richmond | 538 | 95.0% | 8.2% |
| Fifty-Second Street Elementary Los Angeles | 606 | 98.5% | 21.4% |
| Lincoln Elementary San Bernardino | 531 | 98.1% | 13.5% |
| Joshua Hills Elementary Palmdale | 581 | 92.3% | 18.2% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bing Wong Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #4,630 of 5,151 | #261 of 318 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #4,325 of 5,172 ▲ 295 | #234 of 321 ▲ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #4,645 of 5,172 ▲ 168 | #275 of 321 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #1,602 of 5,116 | #112 of 318 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 581 | #1,560 of 5,915 | #124 of 340 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.0:1 | #948 of 5,352 | #35 of 328 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.8% | #3,907 of 5,354 | #213 of 328 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.9% | #334 of 5,625 | #20 of 331 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.0% | #1,319 of 3,837 | #77 of 246 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
581
-67 (-10%) vs 2020
-28% since 2010-11, when it was 806
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
was 23.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 581 | 29 | 20.0:1 | 96% (557) |
| 2023-24 | 608 | 31 | 19.6:1 | 94% (571) |
| 2022-23 | 625 | 30.5 | 20.5:1 | 93% (581) |
| 2020-21 | 648 | 28 | 23.1:1 | 93% (602) |
| 2017-18 | 735 | 29 | 25.3:1 | 94% (689) |
| 2015-16 | 742 | 29 | 25.6:1 | 97% (719) |
| 2010-11 | 806 | N/A | N/A | 95% (765) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bing Wong Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (735 to 581); teachers unchanged (29 to 29).
About Bing Wong Elementary
Bing Wong Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in San Bernardino, California. The school teaches kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 581 students. That puts enrollment 25% larger than the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Bing Wong Elementary reports to San Bernardino City Unified, which has 72 schools and 44,080 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Bing Wong Elementary is Hispanic, at 82%. After that, the student body is 12% Black and 3% White. Among all residents of San Bernardino County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. The diversity index for Bing Wong Elementary is 31%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 20.0:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 2.3 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 96% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in San Bernardino County averages 74%, lower than here.
Among California public elementary schools, Bing Wong Elementary outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
In California, Bing Wong Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 19.3% actual against a predicted 23.4%.
Looking at the county, San Bernardino County, median household income comes to about $85,478, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 583 public schools and about 393,648 students.
Curtis Middle is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Bing Wong Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 23.0%; Bing Wong Elementary's is 19.3%, ranking 5th of 7.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 581, compared with 648 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 23.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 20.0:1.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- San Gorgonio HighHigh · 1,431 students
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- Curtis Middle0.3 mi · 679
- Indian Springs High0.4 mi · 1,810
- Warm Springs Elementary0.9 mi · 490
- Monterey Elementary0.9 mi · 372
- Fairfax Elementary0.9 mi · 359
- Sierra High0.9 mi · 384
Frequently asked questions
About Bing Wong ElementaryHow many students attend Bing Wong Elementary?
Bing Wong Elementary enrolls approximately 581 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Bing Wong Elementary serve?
Bing Wong Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bing Wong Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bing Wong Elementary is approximately 20.0:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bing Wong Elementary?
At Bing Wong Elementary, the student body is approximately 3% White, 82% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Bing Wong Elementary in?
Bing Wong Elementary is part of San Bernardino City Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.