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How has Armada Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
684
Elementary
DISTRICT 616 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MORENO VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 062580003863
Armada Elementary
25201 John F. Kennedy Dr., Moreno Valley, CA 92551 · (951) 571-4500 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL684 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
632 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 130 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 114 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (114).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
40.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +26.1pp since 2014
Math
25.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 26 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 19.0% | 21.0% | 22.5% | 37.5% |
| Math | 10.4% | 15.6% | 27.4% | 46.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.1% | 25.9% |
| 2023-24 | 37.2% | 24.2% |
| 2022-23 | 36.1% | 24.9% |
| 2021-22 | 33.9% | 20.3% |
| 2018-19 | 31.6% | 25.5% |
| 2017-18 | 33.1% | 28.1% |
| 2016-17 | 21.0% | 21.4% |
| 2015-16 | 18.0% | 13.0% |
| 2014-15 | 14.0% | 13.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Armada Elementary
Armada Elementary's state test result (31.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armada Elementary this school | 684 | 92.4% | 31.9% |
| Leo G. Pauly Elementary Bakersfield | 694 | 93.9% | 25.5% |
| Charlotte N. Werner Elementary Rialto | 739 | 91.3% | 20.7% |
| Frank West Elementary Bakersfield | 650 | 94.8% | 23.9% |
| Sunnymead Elementary Moreno Valley | 642 | 95.3% | 21.1% |
| Kelly Elementary Compton | 685 | 89.6% | 48.1% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Armada Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #3,289 of 5,151 | #155 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #3,672 of 5,172 ▲ 38 | #167 of 283 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #2,927 of 5,172 ▲ 69 | #141 of 283 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.9pp | #1,406 of 5,116 | #84 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 684 | #842 of 5,915 | #116 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.8:1 | #2,830 of 5,352 | #109 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.9% | #3,948 of 5,354 | #204 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.4% | #787 of 5,625 | #50 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.9% | #1,654 of 3,837 | #76 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
684
-122 (-15%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 939
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
was 22.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 684 | 30 | 22.8:1 | 92% (632) |
| 2023-24 | 703 | 31 | 22.7:1 | 93% (652) |
| 2022-23 | 779 | 35.5 | 21.9:1 | 86% (669) |
| 2020-21 | 806 | 36 | 22.4:1 | 95% (763) |
| 2017-18 | 833 | 34 | 24.5:1 | 90% (752) |
| 2015-16 | 727 | 27 | 26.9:1 | 91% (661) |
| 2010-11 | 607 | N/A | N/A | 87% (530) |
| 2000-01 | 778 | 40 | 19.4:1 | 79% (618) |
| 1990-91 | 939 | 36 | 26.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Armada Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (833 to 684); teachers down 12% (34 to 30).
About Armada Elementary
Armada Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Moreno Valley, California. It teaches 684 students in kindergarten through 5. It has 47% more students than the average for elementary schools in California (about 465).
Moreno Valley Unified operates 38 schools. Combined enrollment is 31,001 students.
The share of students at Armada Elementary who are Hispanic is 83%. Other groups include 10% Black, 4% multiracial, and 2% White. By comparison, Riverside County residents are about 51% Hispanic. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at Armada Elementary are from different groups.
The school has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 22.8 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The school reported 92% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Riverside County averages 74%, lower than here.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Armada Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 31.9% actual against 25.4% predicted.
Census data for Riverside County show the median household earns about $93,074 a year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Riverside County number 543, with about 424,872 students.
The closest school to Armada Elementary is Chaparral Hills Elementary, located about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Armada Elementary's average proficiency of 31.9% compares with 27.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, Armada Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 15%.
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Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Moreno Valley Unified
- Valley View HighHigh · 2,699 students
- Canyon Springs HighHigh · 2,251 students
- Moreno Valley HighHigh · 2,103 students
- Vista del Lago HighHigh · 1,924 students
- Vista Heights MiddleMiddle · 1,419 students
- Sunnymead MiddleMiddle · 1,185 students
Other schools in Moreno Valley
- Valley View HighHigh · 2,699 students
- Canyon Springs HighHigh · 2,251 students
- Moreno Valley HighHigh · 2,103 students
- Rancho Verde HighHigh · 2,101 students
- Vista del Lago HighHigh · 1,924 students
- Vista Heights MiddleMiddle · 1,419 students
Nearby schools
- Chaparral Hills Elementary0.5 mi · 547
- Badger Springs Middle0.6 mi · 1,058
- Moreno Valley Online Academy0.8 mi · 722
- Bayside Community Day0.8 mi · 121
- Victoriano Elementary0.9 mi · 608
- Vista del Lago High0.9 mi · 1,924
Frequently asked questions
About Armada ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Armada Elementary?
Armada Elementary enrolls approximately 684 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Armada Elementary serve?
Armada Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Armada Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Armada Elementary is approximately 22.8:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Armada Elementary?
Student demographics at Armada Elementary are roughly 2% White, 83% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Armada Elementary in?
Armada Elementary is part of Moreno Valley Unified.
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