Ina Arbuckle Elementary

Ina Arbuckle Elementary is an average-sized primary school in Jurupa Valley, California, operated by Jurupa Unified. The school enrolls 407 students in grades K through 6.

Jurupa Unified comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 17,739 students; Ina Arbuckle Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Ina Arbuckle Elementary logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Black. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ina Arbuckle Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.4%, the actual is 15.0%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Around the school, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Ina Arbuckle Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Riverside Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ina Arbuckle Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ina Arbuckle Elementary's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 407). Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

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