Hendrick Ranch Elementary

As an average-sized K-5 school in Moreno Valley, California, Hendrick Ranch Elementary serves 490 students from grades K through 5, run under Moreno Valley Unified.

Hendrick Ranch Elementary is one of 38 schools operated by Moreno Valley Unified, a district that teaches 31,001 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hendrick Ranch Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hendrick Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.0%, the actual is 19.0%, a residual of -8.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Riverside County) records that median household income runs about $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Hendrick Ranch Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Journey is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hendrick Ranch Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Hendrick Ranch Elementary's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 665 (now 490). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 73% to 77%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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