Box Springs Elementary

Box Springs Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Moreno Valley, California, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified, instructs 428 students, covering grades K through 6.

Box Springs Elementary is one of 38 schools operated by Moreno Valley Unified, a district that caters to 31,001 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Box Springs Elementary records that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 13% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 91% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Box Springs Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Box Springs Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Honey Hollow Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Box Springs Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

Box Springs Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Box Springs Elementary has edged down 10%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 57% to 71%. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 in 2025.

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