William McKinley Elementary

William McKinley Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Colton, California, overseen by Colton Joint Unified. The school enrolls 495 students in grades K through 6.

Within Colton Joint Unified, which oversees 27 schools and 18,397 students, William McKinley Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, William McKinley Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, On paper, William McKinley Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 88% of students at William McKinley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, William McKinley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that median household earnings sit near $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 William McKinley Elementary is one.

Colton Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William McKinley Elementary. On composite proficiency, William McKinley Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. William McKinley Elementary's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 652 (now 495). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the William McKinley Elementary community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.