Fremont Elementary

Fremont Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Riverside, California, operated by Riverside Unified, with 593 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Riverside Unified comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 38,002 students; Fremont Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Fremont Elementary records that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 5% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Fremont Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Fremont Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fremont Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.2%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Fremont Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Patricia Beatty Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fremont Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 593 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 83% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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