La Granada Elementary

La Granada Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in Riverside, California, run under Alvord Unified. Current enrollment sits at 524 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 23 schools in Alvord Unified (16,432 students total), La Granada Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, La Granada Elementary reports that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, La Granada Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 96% of students at La Granada Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, La Granada Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 19.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which La Granada Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mission View High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts La Granada Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 613 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the La Granada Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.