Evans Ranch Elementary

Evans Ranch Elementary operates as a sizable K-5 school in Menifee, California, overseen by Menifee Union. Current enrollment sits at 817 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Evans Ranch Elementary sits 76% bigger than that benchmark.

Evans Ranch Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Menifee Union, a district that educates 12,247 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Evans Ranch Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 22% White, 9% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Asian. Compared to Riverside County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Evans Ranch Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Evans Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the broader community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Evans Ranch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pathways Academy Charter School - Adult Education, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Evans Ranch Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Evans Ranch Elementary's enrollment has increased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 658 (now 817). The White share of enrollment shrank from 40% to 22% over that span.

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