Bear Valley Elementary

Bear Valley Elementary operates as a large primary school in Moreno Valley, California, part of Moreno Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 721 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 55% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Moreno Valley Unified comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 31,001 students; Bear Valley Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bear Valley Elementary logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 12% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bear Valley Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bear Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.7%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of +11.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate 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%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Bear Valley Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Mountain View Middle, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bear Valley Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 27.3%.

Bear Valley Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bear Valley Elementary has contracted 18%, going from 876 students in 2018 to 721 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.