Jefferson Elementary

Jefferson Elementary is a sizable elementary campus in Riverside, California, part of Riverside Unified. The school serves 886 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 91% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

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

On the student-mix side, Jefferson Elementary reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 4% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jefferson Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Jefferson Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Jefferson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jefferson Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Jefferson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ramona High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 1,002 students in 2018 compared to 886 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 9% to 4% over that span.

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