Megan Cope Elementary

Megan Cope Elementary is a heavily attended K-5 school in San Jacinto, California, one of the schools within San Jacinto Unified. The school enrolls 756 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 63% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Megan Cope Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by San Jacinto Unified, a district that educates 10,273 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Megan Cope Elementary reports that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 8% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 87% of students at Megan Cope Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Megan Cope Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 29.5%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Riverside County put the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Megan Cope Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tahquitz High, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Megan Cope Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Megan Cope Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.1%.

Megan Cope Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Megan Cope Elementary has declined 23%, going from 979 students in 2018 to 756 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 69% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.2:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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