Citrus Hills Intermediate

Citrus Hills Intermediate is a middle-grades school of reasonably sized scale in Corona, California, part of Corona-Norco Unified, serveing 919 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 39% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Corona-Norco Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 49,370 students. Citrus Hills Intermediate is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Citrus Hills Intermediate shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 10% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Citrus Hills Intermediate has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Citrus Hills Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Citrus Hills Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Citrus Hills Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Citrus Hills Intermediate is one.

Academy of Innovation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Citrus Hills Intermediate. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Citrus Hills Intermediate at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Citrus Hills Intermediate has decreased 19%, going from 1,134 students in 2018 to 919 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 46% across the same window.

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