Kimbark Elementary

Located at 18021 West Kenwood Ave., in San Bernardino, California, Kimbark Elementary is a compact elementary campus that educates 337 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within San Bernardino City Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Kimbark Elementary sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 72 schools in San Bernardino City Unified (44,080 students total), Kimbark Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Kimbark Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% White, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Kimbark Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Kimbark Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kimbark Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 50.1%.

In the broader community, census data for San Bernardino County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Kimbark Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paakuma K-8, around 3.3 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kimbark Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 339 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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