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Enrollment
425
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALVORD UNIFIED·NCES 060243000131
Collett Elementary
10850 Collett Ave., Riverside, CA 92505 · (951) 358-1605 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL425 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
397 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
31.0%
CA avg 49.1% . -2.0pp since 2014
Math
24.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 14.1% | 16.9% | 26.8% | 42.3% |
| Math | 8.9% | 16.0% | 25.8% | 49.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 24.9% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 26.9% |
| 2022-23 | 33.5% | 20.2% |
| 2021-22 | 34.7% | 24.0% |
| 2018-19 | 40.2% | 28.0% |
| 2017-18 | 30.1% | 27.4% |
| 2016-17 | 35.8% | 30.2% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 27.0% |
| 2014-15 | 33.0% | 29.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Collett Elementary
Collett Elementary's state test result (29.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collett Elementary this school | 425 | 93.4% | 29.2% |
| Fremont Elementary Fresno | 443 | 91.6% | 20.4% |
| Harbor City Elementary Harbor City | 420 | 92.4% | 37.8% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Bakersfield | 392 | 95.4% | 24.6% |
| Allison Elementary Pomona | 427 | 93.9% | 24.9% |
| Lincoln Elementary Hanford | 392 | 94.6% | 26.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Collett Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.2% | #3,621 of 5,151 | #176 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #3,779 of 5,172 ▼ 382 | #178 of 283 ▼ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #3,879 of 5,172 ▼ 542 | #202 of 283 ▼ 35 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.4pp | #1,370 of 5,116 | #49 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 425 | #3,347 of 5,915 | #268 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #2,476 of 5,352 | #85 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.8% | #3,810 of 5,354 | #193 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #650 of 5,625 | #31 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.9% | #610 of 3,837 | #16 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
425
-114 (-21%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 839
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 25.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 425 | 19 | 22.4:1 | 93% (397) |
| 2023-24 | 439 | 19.6 | 22.4:1 | 91% (399) |
| 2022-23 | 511 | 25 | 20.4:1 | 92% (470) |
| 2020-21 | 539 | 21 | 25.7:1 | 80% (433) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 26 | 23.0:1 | 89% (532) |
| 2015-16 | 614 | 27 | 22.7:1 | 85% (521) |
| 2010-11 | 777 | N/A | N/A | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 884 | 40 | 22.1:1 | 73% (649) |
| 1990-91 | 839 | 29 | 28.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Collett Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (598 to 425); teachers down 27% (26 to 19).
About Collett Elementary
Collett Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in Riverside, California. The student body numbers 425 students, from kindergarten through 5.
Collett Elementary is one school in Alvord Unified, a system of 23 schools with 16,432 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Collett Elementary, with 81% of enrollment. Other groups include 6% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County residents are about 51% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Collett Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 33%.
The teaching staff at Collett Elementary is 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 22.4:1. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. About 93% of students, or 397, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 74% average among public schools in Riverside County.
Collett Elementary is 4.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (29.2% versus 24.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
Collett Elementary is located in Riverside County, where median household income is about $93,074, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Collett Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County, which together enroll about 424,872 students.
The nearest public school is La Sierra High, at about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Collett Elementary is 4th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 539 in 2020-21 and 425 in 2024-25, a 21% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (22.4:1) than in 2020-21 (25.7:1).
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Alvord Unified
- Norte Vista HighHigh · 1,804 students
- Hillcrest HighHigh · 1,780 students
- La Sierra HighHigh · 1,514 students
- Ysmael Villegas MiddleMiddle · 1,136 students
- Loma Vista MiddleMiddle · 1,027 students
- Arizona MiddleMiddle · 804 students
Other schools in Riverside
- Martin Luther King Jr. HighHigh · 2,699 students
- Polytechnic HighHigh · 2,484 students
- Ramona HighHigh · 2,142 students
- John W. North HighHigh · 2,011 students
- Arlington HighHigh · 1,920 students
- Norte Vista HighHigh · 1,804 students
Nearby schools
- La Sierra High0.3 mi · 1,514
- Myra Linn Elementary0.6 mi · 440
- S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary0.7 mi · 508
- Phillip M. Stokoe Elementary1.3 mi · 621
- La Granada Elementary1.3 mi · 524
- Wells Middle1.4 mi · 768
Frequently asked questions
About Collett ElementaryHow many students attend Collett Elementary?
Collett Elementary enrolls approximately 425 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Collett Elementary serve?
Collett Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Collett Elementary?
Approximately 22.4:1 students per teacher at Collett Elementary.
How diverse is Collett Elementary?
Collett Elementary reports a student body of 6% White, 81% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Collett Elementary?
Collett Elementary is overseen by Alvord Unified in Riverside County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.