Arlanza Elementary

Arlanza Elementary is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in Riverside, California, one of the schools within Alvord Unified, enrolling 431 students in grades K through 5.

Within Alvord Unified, which oversees 23 schools and 16,432 students, Arlanza Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Arlanza Elementary logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Arlanza Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Arlanza Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.7%, the actual is 20.4%, a residual of -1.3 points.

In the broader community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Arlanza Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Foothill Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arlanza Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Arlanza Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 23.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Arlanza Elementary's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 521 (now 431).

Inside the community feed, the feed for Arlanza Elementary typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.