Butterfield Language Academy

Butterfield Language Academy, a substantial elementary school in Moreno Valley, California, part of Moreno Valley Unified, serves 963 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 107% above the state mean of about 465.

Within Moreno Valley Unified, which oversees 38 schools and 31,001 students, Butterfield Language Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Butterfield Language Academy shows that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Butterfield Language Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.2%; this one delivers 38.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Riverside County put 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%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Butterfield Language Academy is one.

Journey is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Butterfield Language Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Butterfield Language Academy at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 24.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Butterfield Language Academy has ticked up 15%, going from 838 students in 2018 to 963 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.0:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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