Edgemont Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Moreno Valley, California, Edgemont Elementary educates 482 students from grades K through 5, part of Moreno Valley Unified.

Moreno Valley Unified comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 31,001 students; Edgemont Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Edgemont Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest looks like 12% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Edgemont Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Edgemont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 9.8%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Riverside County shows median household income runs about $93,074, 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 Edgemont Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: TownGate Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Edgemont Elementary at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edgemont Elementary has shrank 24%, going from 636 students in 2018 to 482 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 87% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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