Creekside Elementary

Creekside Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Moreno Valley, California, overseen by Moreno Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 612 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Creekside Elementary is one of 38 schools operated by Moreno Valley Unified, a district that caters to 31,001 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Creekside Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 9% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Creekside Elementary reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Creekside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Creekside Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Garvey/Allen Visual & Performing Arts Academy for STEM, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Creekside Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Creekside Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 18.6%.

Creekside Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creekside Elementary has climbed 23%, going from 498 students in 2018 to 612 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 14% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

On this page, members of the Creekside Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.