Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary

Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary is an expansive elementary campus in Jurupa Valley, California, run under Corona-Norco Unified. The school instructs 959 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary sits 106% above that benchmark.

Corona-Norco Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 49,370 students. Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary shows that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 17% Asian, 12% White, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Riverview Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary. On composite proficiency, Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary has edged down 4%, going from 998 students in 2018 to 959 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.