Corona Ranch Elementary

As a large primary school in Corona, California, Corona Ranch Elementary hosts 769 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Corona-Norco Unified. That puts it 65% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Corona-Norco Unified comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 49,370 students; Corona Ranch Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Corona Ranch Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 20% White, 12% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Corona Ranch Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.1%; actual is 49.9%, +17.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) reports that median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Corona Ranch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is William McKinley Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Corona Ranch Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 1,005 students in 2018 compared to 769 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.