Walter Zimmerman Elementary

Walter Zimmerman Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Bloomington, California, run under Colton Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 512 students spanning grades K through 6.

Colton Joint Unified comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 18,397 students; Walter Zimmerman Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Walter Zimmerman Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Walter Zimmerman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.7%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Walter Zimmerman Elementary is one.

Crestmore Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walter Zimmerman Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 27.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Walter Zimmerman Elementary's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 512). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

On the community side, 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.