Cesar Chavez Academy

Cesar Chavez Academy is one of the roomy elementary-level communitys in Corona, California, part of Corona-Norco Unified, with 1,024 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Cesar Chavez Academy sits 120% larger than that benchmark.

Within Corona-Norco Unified, which oversees 51 schools and 49,370 students, Cesar Chavez Academy is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Cesar Chavez Academy lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Cesar Chavez Academy is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 34.2%; this one delivers 48.8%, a residual of +14.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Cesar Chavez Academy is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Coronita Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cesar Chavez Academy. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cesar Chavez Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cesar Chavez Academy has expanded 15%, going from 887 students in 2018 to 1,024 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 17% across the same window.

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