Collett Elementary

Located at 10850 Collett Ave., in Riverside, California, Collett Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that teaches 425 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Alvord Unified.

Collett Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Alvord Unified, a district that educates 16,432 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Collett Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school records 6% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Collett Elementary shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Collett Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Collett Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: La Sierra High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Collett Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Collett Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 26.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Collett Elementary's enrollment has decreased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 425). Hispanic enrollment moved from 77% to 81% across the same window.

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