Alcott Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Riverside, California, Alcott Elementary teaches 603 students from grades K through 6, part of Riverside Unified. That puts it 30% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Riverside Unified, which oversees 48 schools and 38,002 students, Alcott Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Alcott Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 25% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Alcott Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.3%; this one delivers 41.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Alcott Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Polytechnic High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alcott Elementary. On composite proficiency, Alcott Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alcott Elementary has declined 22%, going from 777 students in 2018 to 603 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 31% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 in 2025.

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