Coral Mountain Academy

Set in Coachella, California, Coral Mountain Academy is a large elementary school, overseen by Coachella Valley Unified. It hosts 815 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Coral Mountain Academy sits 75% larger than that benchmark.

Within Coachella Valley Unified, which oversees 21 schools and 15,817 students, Coral Mountain Academy is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Coral Mountain Academy lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Coral Mountain Academy has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coral Mountain Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Coral Mountain Academy is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Imagine Schools Riverside County is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coral Mountain Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coral Mountain Academy at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 26.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 924 students in 2018 compared to 815 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Coral Mountain Academy community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.