Harada Elementary

Harada Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Riverside, California, part of Riverside Unified. The school instructs 603 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Riverside Unified runs 48 schools in total, collectively educating 38,002 students. Harada Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Harada Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%; the rest comes out to 12% Black, 8% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harada Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Harada Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: REACH Leadership STEAM Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harada Elementary. On composite proficiency, Harada Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harada Elementary has contracted 16%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 603 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 61% to 70%. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

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