Orange Elementary

Orange Elementary is an elementary campus of expansive scale in Corona, California, part of Corona-Norco Unified, works with 746 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 60% bigger than typical.

Corona-Norco Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 49,370 students. Orange Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Orange Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% White, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, Orange Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Orange Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Orange Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Santiago High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orange Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 705 students in 2018 compared to 746 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 32% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.