Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy

Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy is an elementary-level community of high-enrollment scale in Winchester, California, one of the schools within Menifee Union, hosting 1,196 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 157% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy is one of 17 schools operated by Menifee Union, a district that caters to 12,247 students overall.

Demographically, Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy reports that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 22% multiracial, 20% White, 12% Asian, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably less Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Susan La Vorgna Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy. On composite proficiency, Harvest Hill S.T.E.A.M. Academy comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 100%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 1,196 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 in 2025.

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