Kathy Binks Elementary

Kathy Binks Elementary is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in Fontana, California, run under Fontana Unified, caters to 567 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% larger than typical.

Fontana Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 32,735 students; Kathy Binks Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kathy Binks Elementary lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 9% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kathy Binks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) logs that median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Kathy Binks Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Juniper Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kathy Binks Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

Kathy Binks Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kathy Binks Elementary has ticked down 7%, going from 608 students in 2018 to 567 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 80% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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