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How has Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
438
Elementary
DISTRICT 593 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEMECULA VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 060002808270
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary
32400 Camino San Dimas, Temecula, CA 92592 · (951) 302-5199 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL438 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of California public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-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
23.1:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
100 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
68.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.1pp since 2014
Math
59.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +8.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 41.5% | 26.6% | 19.2% | 12.7% |
| Math | 31.4% | 28.4% | 27.5% | 12.7% |
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 | 68.1% | 59.8% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 56.4% |
| 2022-23 | 62.5% | 54.5% |
| 2021-22 | 67.4% | 55.2% |
| 2018-19 | 73.5% | 67.7% |
| 2017-18 | 75.0% | 58.3% |
| 2016-17 | 69.7% | 53.0% |
| 2015-16 | 67.0% | 53.0% |
| 2014-15 | 59.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
60.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary's state test result (60.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary this school | 438 | 22.8% | 60.9% |
| Escondido Elementary Stanford | 432 | 20.6% | 75.9% |
| Fammatre Elementary San Jose | 482 | 21.8% | 51.5% |
| Charles Wagner Elementary Placentia | 440 | 27.7% | 63.0% |
| Loyal Barker Elementary Garden Grove | 444 | 28.2% | 83.4% |
| Park View Elementary Ripon | 467 | 20.3% | 70.4% |
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 Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #1,076 of 5,151 | #20 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #1,079 of 5,172 ▲ 86 | #19 of 283 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #845 of 5,172 ▲ 453 | #14 of 283 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #2,379 of 5,116 | #148 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 438 | #3,172 of 5,915 | #264 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.1:1 | #3,021 of 5,352 | #121 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.9% | #401 of 5,354 | #5 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.8% | #5,044 of 5,625 | #293 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #3,677 of 3,837 | #202 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
438
-9 (-2%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 630
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
was 24.8:1
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 | 438 | 19 | 23.1:1 | 23% (100) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 19 | 24.9:1 | 25% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 484 | 18.6 | 26.0:1 | 21% (103) |
| 2020-21 | 447 | 18 | 24.8:1 | 18% (79) |
| 2017-18 | 445 | 18 | 24.7:1 | 14% (63) |
| 2015-16 | 405 | 16 | 25.3:1 | 14% (55) |
| 2010-11 | 367 | N/A | N/A | 9% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 630 | 33 | 19.1:1 | 14% (88) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (445 to 438); teachers up 6% (18 to 19).
About Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Temecula, California. It educates 438 students in kindergarten through 5.
In Temecula Valley Unified, 30 schools enroll a combined 26,274 students.
The most common group at Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary is White students, at 35%. Enrollment also includes 34% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 9% multiracial, and 2% Black. County-wide, about 38% of residents are White. Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary's diversity index is 72%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal data list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers at Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 23.1:1. This ratio sits 0.7 above the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Roughly 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Riverside County, the average is 74%.
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary is graded B by allk12, scoring above 59% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary is -5.3 points: 60.9% actual, 66.2% predicted.
Federal survey data for Riverside County show that the median household income is $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 543 public schools in Riverside County, enrolling about 424,872 students in all.
The nearest public school is Great Oak High, at about 0.5 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 60.9%, lower than Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary's 60.9%.
Federal data place Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 447 in 2020-21, 438 in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 23.1 students per teacher, compared with 24.8 in 2020-21.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Temecula Valley Unified
- Chaparral HighHigh · 3,136 students
- Great Oak HighHigh · 2,946 students
- Temecula Valley HighHigh · 2,739 students
- Bella Vista MiddleMiddle · 1,249 students
- Temecula MiddleMiddle · 1,012 students
- Erle Stanley Gardner MiddleMiddle · 1,008 students
Other schools in Temecula
- River Springs CharterCombined · 7,703 students
- Chaparral HighHigh · 3,136 students
- Great Oak HighHigh · 2,946 students
- Temecula Valley HighHigh · 2,739 students
- Empire Springs CharterCombined · 1,854 students
- Elite Academic Academy - LucerneCombined · 1,070 students
Nearby schools
- Great Oak High0.5 mi · 2,946
- Red Hawk Elementary0.8 mi · 496
- Temecula Luiseno Elementary1.0 mi · 738
- Pauba Valley Elementary1.0 mi · 510
- Erle Stanley Gardner Middle1.3 mi · 1,008
- Tony Tobin Elementary1.5 mi · 718
Frequently asked questions
About Helen Hunt Jackson ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary?
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary enrolls approximately 438 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary serve?
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary is approximately 23.1:1 (19 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary?
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary reports a student body of 35% White, 34% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary in?
Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary is part of Temecula Valley Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.