About Colton Joint Unified School District
Colton Joint Unified School District is a public school system serving San Bernardino County, California, based in Colton. It serves 18,414 students across 28 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #65 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Colton Joint Unified School District enrolls 18,414 students in 28 schools — an average of about 658 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #65 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Colton Joint Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (18,414 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Colton Joint Unified School District employs about 881 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 20.9:1 — below the California average of about 21.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,057.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Colton Joint Unified School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Colton Joint Unified School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Colton Joint Unified School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Colton Joint Unified School District vs. California
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Look up Colton Joint Unified School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):