Lakeland Village

As a well-populated elementary campus in Lake Elsinore, California, Lakeland Village instructs 909 students from grades K through 8, part of Lake Elsinore Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 95% bigger than typical.

Across the 24 schools in Lake Elsinore Unified (20,539 students total), Lakeland Village accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Lakeland Village records that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 13% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lakeland Village performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) logs that median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lakeland Village is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lakeland Village comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 955 students in 2018 compared to 909 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 71% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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