Mission Bell Elementary

Mission Bell Elementary is a small K-5 school in Jurupa Valley, California, overseen by Jurupa Unified. The school instructs 370 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 20% below typical.

Jurupa Unified runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 17,739 students. Mission Bell Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mission Bell Elementary reports that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mission Bell Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 87% of students at Mission Bell Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mission Bell Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Mission Bell Elementary is one.

Granite Hill Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mission Bell Elementary. On composite proficiency, Mission Bell Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Mission Bell Elementary's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 422 (now 370).

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