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What's one thing Margaret White Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 595 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALO VERDE UNIFIED·NCES 062964004604
Margaret White Elementary
610 North Broadway, Blythe, CA 92225 · (760) 922-5159 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
435 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 66 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 15% larger than its 8th grade class (66).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
22.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.6pp since 2014
Math
14.3%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.6% | 17.1% | 23.5% | 53.8% |
| Math | 3.9% | 10.4% | 22.6% | 63.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.6% | 14.3% |
| 2023-24 | 19.7% | 9.6% |
| 2022-23 | 22.0% | 12.9% |
| 2021-22 | 26.4% | 13.0% |
| 2018-19 | 33.1% | 14.8% |
| 2017-18 | 26.7% | 16.4% |
| 2016-17 | 18.3% | 13.9% |
| 2015-16 | 22.0% | 15.0% |
| 2014-15 | 17.0% | 16.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Margaret White Elementary
Margaret White Elementary's state test result (16.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret White Elementary this school | 559 | 77.8% | 16.3% |
| Hidden Springs Elementary Moreno Valley | 565 | 77.3% | 47.9% |
| Mesquite Elementary Palmdale | 582 | 79.0% | 23.4% |
| North Verdemont Elementary San Bernardino | 549 | 74.3% | 43.9% |
| North Park Elementary San Bernardino | 514 | 82.1% | 36.8% |
| Buena Vista Elementary Palmdale | 573 | 77.7% | 23.7% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Margaret White Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #4,864 of 5,151 | #274 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.3% | #4,812 of 5,172 ▲ 222 | #260 of 283 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #4,680 of 5,172 ▲ 85 | #263 of 283 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.2pp | #1,443 of 5,116 | #51 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #1,773 of 5,915 | #206 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #2,481 of 5,352 | #86 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #3,458 of 5,354 | #160 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.8% | #2,381 of 5,625 | #176 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.3% | #1,616 of 3,837 | #73 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
559
-95 (-15%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 25.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 559 | 25 | 22.4:1 | 78% (435) |
| 2023-24 | 609 | 26 | 23.4:1 | 77% (469) |
| 2022-23 | 653 | 26 | 25.1:1 | 80% (523) |
| 2020-21 | 654 | 26 | 25.1:1 | 75% (489) |
| 2017-18 | 684 | 27 | 25.3:1 | 74% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 693 | 24 | 28.9:1 | 71% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 741 | N/A | N/A | 61% (451) |
| 2000-01 | 695 | 32 | 21.7:1 | 52% (363) |
| 1990-91 | 530 | 23 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Margaret White Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (684 to 559); teachers down 7% (27 to 25).
About Margaret White Elementary
Margaret White Elementary is an elementary school in Blythe, California, according to federal school records. The school teaches kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 559 students. The school is 20% bigger than the average for elementary schools in California.
Palo Verde Unified has 5 schools; together they serve 2,610 students.
The largest group at Margaret White Elementary is Hispanic students, at 76%. Smaller groups are 12% White and 10% Black. County-wide, 51% of Riverside County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Margaret White Elementary is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Margaret White Elementary comes to 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 22.4:1. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Margaret White Elementary counts 78% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Margaret White Elementary lands at F, ahead of 2% of California public elementary schools.
Margaret White Elementary trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 17.6 points (16.3% versus 33.9%), a bottom-10% result in California on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Riverside County show that median household income comes to about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Riverside County counts 543 public schools with about 424,872 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Twin Palms Continuation, is about 0.6 miles. Within five miles are 4 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Margaret White Elementary places 4th out of 4 schools in its immediate area.
Locale: Town: Remote. In NCES terms, the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Margaret White Elementary had a net loss of 95 students, or 15%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 25.1 to 22.4 over 4 years.
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Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palo Verde Unified
- Palo Verde HighHigh · 740 students
- Felix J. Appleby ElementaryElementary · 617 students
- Ruth Brown ElementaryElementary · 609 students
- Twin Palms ContinuationHigh · 85 students
- Blythe District PreschoolElementary
Other schools in Blythe
- Palo Verde HighHigh · 740 students
- Felix J. Appleby ElementaryElementary · 617 students
- Ruth Brown ElementaryElementary · 609 students
- Twin Palms ContinuationHigh · 85 students
- Blythe District PreschoolElementary
Nearby schools
- Twin Palms Continuation0.6 mi · 85
- Palo Verde High0.6 mi · 740
- Ruth Brown Elementary0.6 mi · 609
- Felix J. Appleby Elementary1.4 mi · 617
- Ehrenberg Elementary School5.0 mi · 136
- Le Pera Elementary School24.2 mi · 191
Frequently asked questions
About Margaret White ElementaryHow many students attend Margaret White Elementary?
Margaret White Elementary enrolls approximately 559 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Margaret White Elementary serve?
Margaret White Elementary serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Margaret White Elementary?
Approximately 22.4:1 students per teacher at Margaret White Elementary.
How diverse is Margaret White Elementary?
Margaret White Elementary reports a student body of 12% White, 76% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Margaret White Elementary?
Margaret White Elementary is overseen by Palo Verde Unified in Riverside County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.