Amelia Earhart Middle

Set in Riverside, California, Amelia Earhart Middle is a medium-sized intermediate school, part of Riverside Unified. It teaches 743 students across grades 7 through 8.

Riverside Unified runs 48 schools in total, collectively educating 38,002 students. Amelia Earhart Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Amelia Earhart Middle shows that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 29% White, 9% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at Amelia Earhart Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Amelia Earhart Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Amelia Earhart Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tomas Rivera Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Amelia Earhart Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amelia Earhart Middle has contracted 19%, going from 916 students in 2018 to 743 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 35% to 50%.

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