Cesar Chavez Elementary

Cesar Chavez Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Coachella, California, overseen by Coachella Valley Unified, with 622 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Cesar Chavez Elementary sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Cesar Chavez Elementary is one of 21 schools operated by Coachella Valley Unified, a district that caters to 15,817 students overall.

Demographically, Cesar Chavez Elementary records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cesar Chavez Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.0%; this one delivers 20.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) shows that median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cesar Chavez Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Palm View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cesar Chavez Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Cesar Chavez Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 33%: 931 students in 2018 compared to 622 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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