Cawston Elementary

Cawston Elementary operates as a high-enrollment K-5 school in Hemet, California, operated by Hemet Unified. Current enrollment sits at 796 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 71% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Cawston Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Hemet Unified, a district that serves 22,778 students overall.

On demographics, Cawston Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment; the rest looks like 16% White, 10% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Cawston Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cawston Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Cawston Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rancho Viejo Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cawston Elementary. On composite proficiency, Cawston Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 777 students in 2018 compared to 796 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 16% across the same window.

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