Clearwater Elementary

Located at 1640 Murrieta Rd., in Perris, California, Clearwater Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that educates 651 students (grades K through 6), operated by Perris Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 40% bigger than typical.

Within Perris Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 5,518 students, Clearwater Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Clearwater Elementary records that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Clearwater Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clearwater Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Riverside County put the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Clearwater Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Skyview Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clearwater Elementary. On composite proficiency, Clearwater Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

Clearwater Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Clearwater Elementary's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 651). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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