Moreno Elementary

Moreno Elementary is an elementary-level community of expansive scale in Moreno Valley, California, run under Moreno Valley Unified, serveing 809 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Moreno Elementary sits 74% larger than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moreno Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%; the rest breaks down as 16% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Moreno Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Moreno Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Moreno Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.1%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the broader community, Riverside County reports that 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 Moreno Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Valley View High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Moreno Elementary. On composite proficiency, Moreno Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Moreno Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 69% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 809). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.