Monroe Elementary

Monroe Elementary is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Riverside, California, run under Riverside Unified, with 596 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Monroe Elementary sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 48 schools in Riverside Unified (38,002 students total), Monroe Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Monroe Elementary logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Monroe Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) logs that median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Monroe Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Chemawa Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monroe Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monroe Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 28.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monroe Elementary has declined 11%, going from 673 students in 2018 to 596 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 11% to 6%.

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