Armada Elementary

Armada Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Moreno Valley, California, run under Moreno Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 684 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 47% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Armada Elementary is one of 38 schools operated by Moreno Valley Unified, a district that enrolls 31,001 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Armada Elementary shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Armada Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.4%; this one delivers 30.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Armada Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Chaparral Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Armada Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Armada Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 26.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Armada Elementary's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 833 (now 684). The Black share of enrollment declined from 14% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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