Oak Meadows Elementary

Set in Murrieta, California, Oak Meadows Elementary is a large elementary school, overseen by Menifee Union. It hosts 818 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 76% bigger than typical.

Within Menifee Union, which oversees 17 schools and 12,247 students, Oak Meadows Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Oak Meadows Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 20% White, 13% multiracial, 8% Asian, 7% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Oak Meadows Elementary reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at Oak Meadows Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Meadows Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.2%.

In the surrounding 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 the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Oak Meadows Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sally Buselt Elementary, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Meadows Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.7%.

Oak Meadows Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oak Meadows Elementary's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 899 (now 818). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 36% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.

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