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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Colton High?
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Enrollment
1,729
High
DISTRICT 1,350 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLTON JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 060939000946
Colton High
777 West Valley Blvd., Colton, CA 92324 · (909) 580-5005 · San Bernardino County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,729 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of California public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
1,569 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 460 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 429 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 392 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 448 | 26% |
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · 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
49.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +14.6pp since 2014
Math
18.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 18.3% | 31.3% | 27.2% | 23.2% |
| Math | 4.0% | 14.5% | 20.7% | 60.8% |
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 | 49.6% | 18.6% |
| 2023-24 | 52.5% | 16.5% |
| 2022-23 | 37.1% | 15.2% |
| 2021-22 | 41.3% | 11.7% |
| 2020-21 | 45.9% | 18.3% |
| 2018-19 | 49.8% | 15.8% |
| 2017-18 | 55.5% | 17.8% |
| 2016-17 | 51.2% | 14.7% |
| 2015-16 | 47.0% | 19.0% |
| 2014-15 | 35.0% | 14.0% |
% 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
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Colton High
Colton High's state test result (34.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colton High this school | 1,729 | 90.7% | 34.3% |
| Garey High Pomona | 1,567 | 91.4% | 35.0% |
| Citrus Hill High Perris | 1,630 | 91.6% | 32.7% |
| Norte Vista High Riverside | 1,804 | 92.0% | 30.2% |
| South East High South Gate | 1,990 | 92.1% | 34.9% |
| Hueneme High Oxnard | 1,913 | 91.2% | 24.4% |
Matched among California high 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 Colton High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #678 of 1,052 | #33 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #717 of 1,056 ▼ 2 | #35 of 56 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #717 of 1,056 ▼ 121 | #33 of 56 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.6pp | #237 of 1,044 | #21 of 56 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,729 | #423 of 2,093 | #40 of 102 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #450 of 1,352 | #23 of 78 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.6% | #1,239 of 1,351 | #77 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #271 of 1,575 | #14 of 84 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #403 of 802 | #23 of 46 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,729
-237 (-12%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 2,109
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 20.7:1
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 | 1,729 | 89.3 | 19.4:1 | 91% (1,569) |
| 2023-24 | 1,768 | 93.5 | 18.9:1 | 89% (1,580) |
| 2022-23 | 1,800 | 93.3 | 19.3:1 | 83% (1,499) |
| 2020-21 | 1,966 | 95 | 20.7:1 | 94% (1,840) |
| 2017-18 | 1,956 | 97.5 | 20.1:1 | 84% (1,639) |
| 2015-16 | 1,953 | 92 | 21.2:1 | 82% (1,597) |
| 2010-11 | 3,368 | N/A | N/A | 67% (2,267) |
| 2000-01 | 2,729 | 114 | 23.9:1 | 33% (901) |
| 1990-91 | 2,109 | 88 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Colton High.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (1,956 to 1,729); teachers down 8% (97.5 to 89.3).
About Colton High
Colton High is a large high school in Colton, California, one of the schools in Colton Joint Unified. It enrolled 1,729 students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 106% higher than the average for high schools in California, which is about 838.
Colton Joint Unified has 27 schools; together they serve 18,397 students.
The student body at Colton High is 95% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 2% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 55%. Pick two students at random and there is a 10% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 89.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 19.4:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California. The school's lunch program data list 91% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 74% average among public schools in San Bernardino County.
Colton High is graded B by allk12, scoring above 58% of California public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Colton High scores 34.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 26.4%.
Among San Bernardino County residents, the median household income is $85,478, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides Colton High, San Bernardino County has 582 other public schools.
Ulysses Grant Elementary is the closest public school, about 0.5 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Colton High. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Colton High is 2nd on average proficiency.
Colton High falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 1,729 students in 2024-25, 237 fewer than the 1,966 it had in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio falling from 20.7:1 to 19.4:1.
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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
Other schools in Colton Joint Unified
- Bloomington HighHigh · 1,794 students
- Grand Terrace High Sch at the Ray Abril Jr. Edal ComplexHigh · 1,647 students
- Colton MiddleMiddle · 870 students
- Terrace Hills MiddleMiddle · 852 students
- Joe BacaMiddle · 705 students
- Alice Birney ElementaryElementary · 681 students
Other schools in Colton
- William G. Jehue MiddleMiddle · 1,444 students
- Colton MiddleMiddle · 870 students
- Mojave River Academy - National TrailsCombined · 801 students
- Alice Birney ElementaryElementary · 681 students
- Dr. Ernest Garcia ElementaryElementary · 608 students
- Georgia F. Morris ElementaryElementary · 604 students
Other Colton High schools
One other US public school is named Colton High. Colton High is the largest of the 2.
- Colton High SchoolColton, OR · 161 students
Nearby schools
- Ulysses Grant Elementary0.5 mi · 589
- Colton Middle0.7 mi · 870
- Paul Rogers Elementary0.9 mi · 602
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary1.0 mi · 465
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary1.1 mi · 587
- William McKinley Elementary1.2 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Colton HighHow many students attend Colton High?
Colton High enrolls approximately 1,729 students in grades 09-12.
Is Colton High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Colton High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Colton High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Colton High is approximately 19.4:1 (89 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Colton High?
At Colton High, the student body is approximately 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Colton High in?
Colton High is part of Colton Joint Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.