Martin Van Buren Elementary

Martin Van Buren Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in Indio, California, one of the schools within Desert Sands Unified, with 533 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Desert Sands Unified runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 25,613 students. Martin Van Buren Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Martin Van Buren Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Martin Van Buren Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Martin Van Buren Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Martin Van Buren Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Theodore Roosevelt Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martin Van Buren Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Martin Van Buren Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.1%.

Martin Van Buren Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Martin Van Buren Elementary's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 634 (now 533).

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