March Middle

Set in Moreno Valley, California, March Middle is a mid-sized junior high, operated by Val Verde Unified. It instructs 686 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within Val Verde Unified, which oversees 22 schools and 19,065 students, March Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, March Middle logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 13% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, March Middle has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 87% 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 noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, March Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Riverside County put 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%. March Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rainbow Ridge Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts March Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at March Middle has shrank 10%, going from 765 students in 2018 to 686 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 17% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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