Boulder Ridge Elementary

Boulder Ridge Elementary operates as a large elementary campus in Menifee, California, part of Romoland Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 938 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 102% above the state mean of about 465.

Across the 6 schools in Romoland Elementary (4,793 students total), Boulder Ridge Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Boulder Ridge Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Boulder Ridge Elementary records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Boulder Ridge Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Boulder Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Boulder Ridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mesa View Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Boulder Ridge Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

Boulder Ridge Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 43%: 655 students in 2018 compared to 938 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 20% to 0%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 today.

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