Colton Middle

Colton Middle is a middle-grades school of moderately sized scale in Colton, California, run under Colton Joint Unified, enrolling 870 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Colton Middle sits 32% larger than that benchmark.

Colton Joint Unified runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 18,397 students. Colton Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Colton Middle logs that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Colton Middle shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Colton Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 93% 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, Colton Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.2%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put 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. Colton Middle is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ulysses Grant Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Colton Middle. On composite proficiency, Colton Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 1,034 students in 2018 compared to 870 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.