Public school / Primary
Walter Zimmerman Elementary
Bloomington, California
- NCES ID
- 060939000959
- District
- Colton Joint Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walter Zimmerman Elementary is a public primary school in Bloomington, California, run by Colton Joint Unified. It enrols 559 students — the 30660th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
559
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
24.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
95.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Colton Joint Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Bloomington High1,976 students
- 2Colton High1,800 students
- 3Grand Terrace High Sch at the Ray Abril Jr. Edal Complex1,726 students
- 4Terrace Hills Middle838 students
- 5Colton Middle835 students
- 6Joe Baca753 students
- 7Terrace View Elementary680 students
- 8Alice Birney Elementary652 students
- Enrollment+17.9%
- Teachers+9.5%
- Students per teacher+10.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+39.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory