Curtis Middle

Located at 1050 North Delrosa Dr., in San Bernardino, California, Curtis Middle is a medium-sized 6-8 campus that works with 679 students (grades 7 through 8), overseen by San Bernardino City Unified.

Curtis Middle is one of 72 schools operated by San Bernardino City Unified, a district that instructs 44,080 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Curtis Middle lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Black, 2% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Curtis Middle logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Curtis Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.7%, the actual is 17.1%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Curtis Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Bing Wong Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Curtis Middle ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 20.8%.

Curtis Middle operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 841 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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