McSweeny Elementary

McSweeny Elementary is one of the heavily attended elementary campuss in Hemet, California, run under Hemet Unified, with 781 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so McSweeny Elementary sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 27 schools in Hemet Unified (22,778 students total), McSweeny Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, McSweeny Elementary lists that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 13% White, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McSweeny Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.2%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Riverside County shows 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. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), McSweeny Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Diamond Valley Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McSweeny Elementary. On composite proficiency, McSweeny Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 710 students in 2018 compared to 781 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 18% to 13% over that span.

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