1
Welcome to the Foothill Elementary community. What's one thing that would make Foothill Elementary even better?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
451
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALVORD UNIFIED·NCES 060243000132
Foothill Elementary
8230 Wells Ave., Riverside, CA 92503 · (951) 358-1610 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL451 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
421 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 95 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
18.4%
CA avg 49.1% . -6.6pp since 2014
Math
17.3%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.7% | 11.7% | 22.0% | 59.6% |
| Math | 6.2% | 11.1% | 26.6% | 56.2% |
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 | 18.4% | 17.3% |
| 2023-24 | 16.9% | 18.4% |
| 2022-23 | 20.8% | 15.6% |
| 2021-22 | 27.1% | 17.3% |
| 2018-19 | 34.3% | 26.1% |
| 2017-18 | 33.0% | 28.7% |
| 2016-17 | 32.6% | 29.1% |
| 2015-16 | 36.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 25.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
17.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Foothill Elementary
Foothill Elementary's state test result (17.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foothill Elementary this school | 451 | 93.3% | 17.8% |
| Lehigh Elementary Montclair | 477 | 93.7% | 29.7% |
| Winfield Elementary Winton | 444 | 92.6% | 34.7% |
| Dover Elementary San Pablo | 458 | 91.9% | 12.1% |
| Camino Nuevo Charter Academy #4 Los Angeles | 475 | 92.4% | N/A |
| Fremont Elementary Delano | 440 | 91.8% | 27.5% |
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 Foothill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #4,756 of 5,151 | #264 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #4,548 of 5,172 ▼ 198 | #238 of 283 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #4,930 of 5,172 ▲ 5 | #276 of 283 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.4pp | #655 of 5,116 | #20 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 451 | #3,016 of 5,915 | #258 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #2,407 of 5,352 | #77 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.9% | #4,540 of 5,354 | #245 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #660 of 5,625 | #33 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #1,470 of 3,837 | #68 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
451
-79 (-15%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 788
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 22.1:1
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 | 451 | 20.2 | 22.3:1 | 93% (421) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 22.8 | 20.1:1 | 93% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 21.8 | 22.1:1 | 93% (448) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 24 | 22.1:1 | 88% (466) |
| 2017-18 | 561 | 27 | 20.8:1 | 92% (517) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 25 | 23.8:1 | 93% (553) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | N/A | N/A | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 876 | 41 | 21.4:1 | 74% (650) |
| 1990-91 | 788 | 30 | 26.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Foothill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (561 to 451); teachers down 25% (27 to 20.2).
About Foothill Elementary
Foothill Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Alvord Unified, located in Riverside, California. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 451 students.
Foothill Elementary is one school in Alvord Unified, a system of 23 schools with 16,432 students.
Hispanic students account for 90% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% Asian and 2% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 51%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 18, compared with 70 nationally.
Foothill Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.3:1, with 20.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The school has 93% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Riverside County is 74%.
Foothill Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (17.8%) and its predicted rate (24.9%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of California schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Riverside County show that median household income comes to about $93,074, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 543, with about 424,872 students.
Wells Middle is the nearest public school to Foothill Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Foothill Elementary is behind the 21.9% nearby average, ranking 5th of 7.
NCES describes the area around Foothill Elementary as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 451, from 530 in 2020-21.
The Foothill Elementary discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Alvord Unified
- Norte Vista HighHigh · 1,804 students
- Hillcrest HighHigh · 1,780 students
- La Sierra HighHigh · 1,514 students
- Ysmael Villegas MiddleMiddle · 1,136 students
- Loma Vista MiddleMiddle · 1,027 students
- Arizona MiddleMiddle · 804 students
Other schools in Riverside
- Martin Luther King Jr. HighHigh · 2,699 students
- Polytechnic HighHigh · 2,484 students
- Ramona HighHigh · 2,142 students
- John W. North HighHigh · 2,011 students
- Arlington HighHigh · 1,920 students
- Norte Vista HighHigh · 1,804 students
Other Foothill Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 2 states are named Foothill Elementary. Foothill Elementary is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Foothill ElementaryCorona, CA · 640 students
- Foothill ElementaryPrather, CA · 609 students
- Foothill ElementaryPittsburg, CA · 551 students
- Foothill ElementarySanta Barbara, CA · 413 students
- Foothill ElementarySaratoga, CA · 278 students
Nearby schools
- Wells Middle0.5 mi · 768
- Arlanza Elementary0.6 mi · 431
- Jackson Elementary0.8 mi · 657
- Sunshine Special Education0.9 mi · 74
- La Granada Elementary1.1 mi · 524
- Liberty Elementary1.1 mi · 651
Frequently asked questions
About Foothill ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Foothill Elementary?
Foothill Elementary enrolls approximately 451 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Foothill Elementary serve?
Foothill Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Foothill Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Foothill Elementary is approximately 22.3:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Foothill Elementary?
At Foothill Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 90% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Foothill Elementary?
Foothill Elementary is overseen by Alvord Unified in Riverside County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.