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Hemet Dual Language Academy
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
About Hemet Dual Language Academy
Located at 26400 Dartmouth St., in Hemet, California, Hemet Dual Language Academy is a mid-sized K-5 school that caters to 476 students (grades K through 8), part of Hemet Unified.
Hemet Dual Language Academy is one of 27 schools operated by Hemet Unified, a district that caters to 22,778 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Hemet Dual Language Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest comes out to 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hemet Dual Language Academy has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hemet Dual Language Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.5%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) records that median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Hemet Dual Language Academy is one.
Dartmouth Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hemet Dual Language Academy comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 20.8%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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