Madison Elementary

Madison Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Riverside, California, run under Riverside Unified. The school hosts 675 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Madison Elementary sits 45% larger than that benchmark.

Riverside Unified runs 48 schools in total, collectively educating 38,002 students. Madison Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Madison Elementary logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 10% White, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Riverside County) shows 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. Madison Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Ramona High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Madison Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 724 students in 2018 compared to 675 in 2025.

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