Chemawa Middle

Chemawa Middle is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Riverside, California, one of the schools within Riverside Unified. The school works with 885 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Across the 48 schools in Riverside Unified (38,002 students total), Chemawa Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Chemawa Middle lists that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% White, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.7:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chemawa Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.4%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate 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. Chemawa Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Sherman Indian High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chemawa Middle. On composite proficiency, Chemawa Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

Chemawa Middle operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 855 students in 2018 compared to 885 in 2025.

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