Margaret White Elementary

Located at 610 North Broadway, in Blythe, California, Margaret White Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community that caters to 559 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Palo Verde Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Margaret White Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Palo Verde Unified, a district that instructs 2,610 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Margaret White Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 12% White, 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Margaret White Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.1%; Margaret White Elementary posts 14.4%, -18.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Margaret White Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Twin Palms Continuation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 6 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Margaret White Elementary comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Margaret White Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 684 (now 559). The White share of enrollment contracted from 18% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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