Midland Elementary

Midland Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Moreno Valley, California, run under Moreno Valley Unified. The school caters to 553 students in grades K through 5.

Within Moreno Valley Unified, which oversees 38 schools and 31,001 students, Midland Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Midland Elementary logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Midland Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Midland Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Midland Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Sugar Hill Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Midland Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midland Elementary has edged down 11%, going from 623 students in 2018 to 553 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 73% to 81%. Class-load math has fell: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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