Machado Elementary

Set in Lake Elsinore, California, Machado Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within Lake Elsinore Unified. It instructs 531 students across grades K through 5.

Lake Elsinore Unified comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 20,539 students; Machado Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Machado Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest consists of 8% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Machado Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Machado Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.0%; this one delivers 18.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) reports that median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Machado Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Lakeside High, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Machado Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.4%.

Machado Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Machado Elementary has shrank 15%, going from 625 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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