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Corona Fundamental Intermediate
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Corona Fundamental Intermediate
Corona Fundamental Intermediate operates as a mid-sized 6-8 campus in Corona, California, one of the schools within Corona-Norco Unified. Current enrollment sits at 754 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Corona Fundamental Intermediate is one of 51 schools operated by Corona-Norco Unified, a district that hosts 49,370 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Corona Fundamental Intermediate records that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% Asian, 8% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Corona Fundamental Intermediate has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Corona Fundamental Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Corona Fundamental Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Corona Fundamental Intermediate ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.8%; Corona Fundamental Intermediate posts 49.3%, +17.5 points above that line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Riverside County) shows that median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Corona Fundamental Intermediate is one.
Nearest neighbor: Garretson Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Corona Fundamental Intermediate comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Corona Fundamental Intermediate has decreased 4%, going from 784 students in 2018 to 754 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 13% to 8% over that span.
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