Del Sol Academy

Del Sol Academy is one of the large K-5 schools in Jurupa Valley, California, one of the schools within Jurupa Unified, with 1,213 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 161% above typical.

Jurupa Unified comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 17,739 students; Del Sol Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Del Sol Academy shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Asian, 11% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Del Sol Academy reports 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Del Sol Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.3%; actual is 27.3%, a gap of -21.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Riverside County) logs that median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Del Sol Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sky Country Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Del Sol Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.