Mead Valley Elementary

Mead Valley Elementary is a K-5 school of sizable scale in Perris, California, operated by Val Verde Unified, caters to 788 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 69% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Mead Valley Elementary is one of 22 schools operated by Val Verde Unified, a district that serves 19,065 students overall.

Demographically, Mead Valley Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mead Valley Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mead Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of +7.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Mead Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Tomas Rivera Middle, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mead Valley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mead Valley Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mead Valley Elementary has expanded 23%, going from 639 students in 2018 to 788 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 88% to 95% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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