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Which teacher or staff member at Wilson Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
449
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN BERNARDINO CITY UNIFIED·NCES 063417005392
Wilson Elementary
2894 North Belle St., San Bernardino, CA 92404 · (909) 881-8253 · San Bernardino County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL449 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
415 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 42% larger than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
25.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.2pp since 2014
Math
22.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.7% | 15.6% | 26.1% | 48.7% |
| Math | 8.8% | 13.8% | 31.4% | 46.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.2% | 22.6% |
| 2023-24 | 20.8% | 21.3% |
| 2022-23 | 22.8% | 21.6% |
| 2021-22 | 18.9% | 17.1% |
| 2018-19 | 35.8% | 34.4% |
| 2017-18 | 39.4% | 31.5% |
| 2016-17 | 29.7% | 19.9% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 25.0% | 22.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wilson Elementary
Wilson Elementary's state test result (22.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Elementary this school | 449 | 92.4% | 22.4% |
| Myra Linn Elementary Riverside | 440 | 92.5% | 26.8% |
| Winn A. Myers Elementary Rialto | 461 | 91.5% | 31.0% |
| Del Norte Elementary Ontario | 428 | 93.0% | 27.0% |
| Harbor City Elementary Harbor City | 420 | 92.4% | 37.8% |
| Ramona-Alessandro Elementary San Bernardino | 502 | 92.8% | 38.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wilson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #4,352 of 5,151 | #234 of 318 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #4,033 of 5,172 ▲ 5 | #205 of 321 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #4,465 of 5,172 ▲ 203 | #260 of 321 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.9pp | #1,412 of 5,116 | #98 of 318 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 449 | #3,049 of 5,915 | #238 of 340 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #442 of 5,352 | #14 of 328 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.1% | #4,325 of 5,354 | #261 of 328 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.4% | #779 of 5,625 | #44 of 331 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #3,065 of 3,837 | #192 of 246 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
449
-39 (-8%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 551
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 20.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 449 | 24 | 18.7:1 | 92% (415) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 25 | 18.8:1 | 90% (421) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 25.5 | 19.6:1 | 89% (444) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 24 | 20.3:1 | 89% (435) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 22 | 21.9:1 | 92% (442) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 22 | 22.9:1 | 95% (479) |
| 2010-11 | 653 | N/A | N/A | 94% (611) |
| 2000-01 | 738 | 32 | 23.1:1 | 87% (645) |
| 1990-91 | 551 | 17 | 32.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (483 to 449); teachers up 9% (22 to 24).
About Wilson Elementary
Wilson Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in California, located in San Bernardino. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 449 students enrolled.
San Bernardino City Unified, which runs Wilson Elementary, has 72 schools and 44,080 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Wilson Elementary is 88%. Next come 6% Black, 2% White, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 55% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wilson Elementary scores 22%.
There are 24 full-time-equivalent teachers at Wilson Elementary, giving a ratio of 18.7:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. A total of 415 students, or 92%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 74% average for public schools in San Bernardino County is 18 points lower.
Wilson Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of California public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Wilson Elementary is 3.0 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
The school's county is San Bernardino County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $85,478, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. San Bernardino County's 583 public schools enroll about 393,648 students and include Wilson Elementary.
A public school about 1.1 miles away, George Brown Jr. Elementary, is the closest to Wilson Elementary. Wilson Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Wilson Elementary comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 488 to 449, an 8% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 18.7:1.
People who know Wilson Elementary can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Bernardino City Unified
- Cajon HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Arroyo Valley HighHigh · 2,692 students
- Indian Springs HighHigh · 1,810 students
- San Bernardino HighHigh · 1,440 students
- San Gorgonio HighHigh · 1,431 students
- Pacific HighHigh · 1,246 students
Other schools in San Bernardino
- Cajon HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Arroyo Valley HighHigh · 2,692 students
- San Bernardino County Special EducationCombined · 1,860 students
- Indian Springs HighHigh · 1,810 students
- San Bernardino HighHigh · 1,440 students
- San Gorgonio HighHigh · 1,431 students
Other Wilson Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 24 states are named Wilson Elementary. Wilson Elementary is the 21st largest of the 60.
- Wilson ElementaryFresno, CA · 669 students
- Wilson ElementaryDinuba, CA · 545 students
- Wilson ElementaryGridley, CA · 544 students
- Wilson ElementaryLynwood, CA · 499 students
- Wilson ElementaryTulare, CA · 487 students
Nearby schools
- George Brown Jr. Elementary1.1 mi · 733
- Arrowview Middle1.1 mi · 917
- San Bernardino Co Juve Detention and Assessment Center1.1 mi · 113
- Parkside Elementary1.1 mi · 485
- ASA Charter1.1 mi · 334
- Golden Valley Middle1.2 mi · 742
Frequently asked questions
About Wilson ElementaryHow large is Wilson Elementary?
Wilson Elementary enrolls approximately 449 students in grades KG-05.
Is Wilson Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wilson Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Wilson Elementary have?
Wilson Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Wilson Elementary?
Student demographics at Wilson Elementary are roughly 2% White, 88% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Wilson Elementary public or private?
Wilson Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by San Bernardino City Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.