Ulysses Grant Elementary

Ulysses Grant Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in Colton, California, one of the schools within Colton Joint Unified. The school instructs 589 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Ulysses Grant Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Colton Joint Unified, a district that caters to 18,397 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ulysses Grant Elementary records that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ulysses Grant Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.5%; this one delivers 30.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household income runs about $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. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Ulysses Grant Elementary is one.

Colton Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ulysses Grant Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

Ulysses Grant Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 675 students in 2018 compared to 589 in 2025.

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