Foothill Elementary

Foothill Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in Riverside, California, overseen by Alvord Unified, with 451 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Alvord Unified, which oversees 23 schools and 16,432 students, Foothill Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Foothill Elementary logs that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Foothill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 17.8%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Riverside County shows median household income runs about $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Foothill Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wells Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Foothill Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Foothill Elementary's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 561 (now 451). Class-load math has grew: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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