Canyon Springs High

As a high-enrollment four-year high school in Moreno Valley, California, Canyon Springs High instructs 2,251 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 169% larger than typical.

Moreno Valley Unified runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 31,001 students. Canyon Springs High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Canyon Springs High records that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 14% Black, 7% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Canyon Springs High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Canyon Springs High is one.

The closest other public school is Vista Heights Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Canyon Springs High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Canyon Springs High has changed only slightly, going from 2,226 students in 2018 to 2,251 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 64% to 72% over that span.

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