Lake Mathews Elementary

Lake Mathews Elementary is a large primary school in Riverside, California, operated by Riverside Unified. The school instructs 733 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lake Mathews Elementary sits 58% bigger than that benchmark.

Riverside Unified comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 38,002 students; Lake Mathews Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lake Mathews Elementary lists that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 25% White, 17% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lake Mathews Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Mathews Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 56.7%, a residual of +4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Riverside County shows 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%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Lake Mathews Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Lake Hills Elementary, roughly 2.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Mathews Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

Lake Mathews Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Mathews Elementary has fell 14%, going from 856 students in 2018 to 733 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 44% to 25%.

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