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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 595 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALO VERDE UNIFIED·NCES 062964004599
Felix J. Appleby Elementary
10321 Vernon Ave., Blythe, CA 92225 · (760) 922-7174 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.7:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
531 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 29% larger than its 8th grade class (62).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
24.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.9pp since 2014
Math
13.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -9.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.7% | 18.2% | 25.5% | 49.6% |
| Math | 3.5% | 9.9% | 23.3% | 63.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.9% | 13.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.7% | 16.1% |
| 2022-23 | 33.3% | 17.7% |
| 2021-22 | 38.2% | 20.6% |
| 2018-19 | 44.3% | 32.2% |
| 2017-18 | 38.5% | 24.1% |
| 2016-17 | 40.5% | 28.0% |
| 2015-16 | 29.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 18.0% | 23.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Felix J. Appleby Elementary
Felix J. Appleby Elementary's state test result (22.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felix J. Appleby Elementary this school | 617 | 86.1% | 22.2% |
| Palm Innovation Academy Beaumont | 565 | 87.4% | 39.0% |
| Withrow Elementary Lake Elsinore | 583 | 84.9% | 27.4% |
| Madison Elementary Riverside | 675 | 86.7% | 37.3% |
| Ruth Brown Elementary Blythe | 609 | 86.7% | 17.2% |
| Little Lake Elementary Hemet | 734 | 87.6% | 20.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Felix J. Appleby Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #4,374 of 5,151 | #232 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.4% | #4,877 of 5,172 ▼ 294 | #268 of 283 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #4,486 of 5,172 ▼ 1,107 | #248 of 283 ▼ 76 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.2pp | #125 of 5,116 | #3 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #1,249 of 5,915 | #159 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.7:1 | #4,232 of 5,352 | #240 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.0% | #3,435 of 5,354 | #159 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.1% | #1,556 of 5,625 | #117 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #2,119 of 3,837 | #107 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
617
-20 (-3%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 646
Student : Teacher
24.7:1
was 24.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 617 | 25 | 24.7:1 | 86% (531) |
| 2023-24 | 615 | 27 | 22.8:1 | 83% (513) |
| 2022-23 | 632 | 28 | 22.6:1 | 84% (531) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 26 | 24.5:1 | 84% (537) |
| 2017-18 | 720 | 29 | 24.8:1 | 84% (608) |
| 2015-16 | 769 | 27 | 28.5:1 | 77% (591) |
| 2010-11 | 559 | N/A | N/A | 81% (451) |
| 2000-01 | 556 | 28 | 19.9:1 | 82% (455) |
| 1990-91 | 646 | 27 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Felix J. Appleby Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (720 to 617); teachers down 14% (29 to 25).
About Felix J. Appleby Elementary
Felix J. Appleby Elementary serves students in Blythe, California, as a mid-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 617 students. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.
Enrollment across the 5 schools in Palo Verde Unified totals 2,610 students.
Hispanic students are 76% of those enrolled at Felix J. Appleby Elementary. The rest of enrollment is 14% White, 7% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Riverside County's population at about 51%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 40, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 24.7:1 is based on 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. In all, 86% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Riverside County averages 74%, lower than here.
Felix J. Appleby Elementary earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 9% of California public elementary schools.
Felix J. Appleby Elementary is 6.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (22.2% versus 29.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
The county, Riverside County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $93,074 a year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's public schools total 543, with about 424,872 students.
Among nearby public schools, Ruth Brown Elementary is closest at about 1.0 miles. Felix J. Appleby Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with 5 others within five miles. Among 4 nearby schools that report test results, Felix J. Appleby Elementary ranks 2nd on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school shrank from 637 students in 2020-21 to 617 in 2024-25.
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Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palo Verde Unified
- Palo Verde HighHigh · 740 students
- Ruth Brown ElementaryElementary · 609 students
- Margaret White ElementaryElementary · 559 students
- Twin Palms ContinuationHigh · 85 students
- Blythe District PreschoolElementary
Other schools in Blythe
- Palo Verde HighHigh · 740 students
- Ruth Brown ElementaryElementary · 609 students
- Margaret White ElementaryElementary · 559 students
- Twin Palms ContinuationHigh · 85 students
- Blythe District PreschoolElementary
Nearby schools
- Ruth Brown Elementary1.0 mi · 609
- Margaret White Elementary1.4 mi · 559
- Twin Palms Continuation1.5 mi · 85
- Palo Verde High1.7 mi · 740
- Ehrenberg Elementary School5.0 mi · 136
- Le Pera Elementary School25.5 mi · 191
Frequently asked questions
About Felix J. Appleby ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Felix J. Appleby Elementary?
Felix J. Appleby Elementary enrolls approximately 617 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Felix J. Appleby Elementary serve?
Felix J. Appleby Elementary serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Felix J. Appleby Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Felix J. Appleby Elementary is approximately 24.7:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Felix J. Appleby Elementary?
Felix J. Appleby Elementary reports a student body of 14% White, 76% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Felix J. Appleby Elementary?
Felix J. Appleby Elementary is overseen by Palo Verde Unified in Riverside County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.