Castle View Elementary

Castle View Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Riverside, California, part of Riverside Unified, caters to 684 students, covering grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 47% bigger than typical.

Castle View Elementary is one of 48 schools operated by Riverside Unified, a district that serves 38,002 students overall.

On demographics, Castle View Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 17% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Castle View Elementary logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Castle View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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), Castle View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: William Howard Taft Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Castle View Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

Castle View Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Castle View Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 684). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 24% to 17%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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