Keith McCarthy Academy

Keith McCarthy Academy sits in Lake Elsinore, California, and is classified as a combined-grade school. It educates 332 students in kindergarten through 12. The typical figure for combined schools in California is about 602 students.

Lake Elsinore Unified runs 24 schools with a combined 20,539 students. Keith McCarthy Academy is one of them.

Hispanic students are the majority at Keith McCarthy Academy, with 57% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 30% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Keith McCarthy Academy's 18 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 18.4:1. That is close to the 18.6:1 average for combined schools in California. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 79%.

Keith McCarthy Academy is located in Riverside County, where the median household income is $93,074, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Besides Keith McCarthy Academy, Riverside County has 542 other public schools.

The school nearest to Keith McCarthy Academy is Ortega High, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

The NCES locale for Keith McCarthy Academy is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. In federal data, Keith McCarthy Academy is a virtual school.

Federal data show a 32% enrollment gain, from 252 in 2020-21 to 332 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 18.4:1, from 21.0:1.

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