Pachappa Elementary

Pachappa Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school in Riverside, California, run under Riverside Unified. The school caters to 676 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 45% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Riverside Unified runs 48 schools in total, collectively educating 38,002 students. Pachappa Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Pachappa Elementary shows that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Pachappa Elementary logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pachappa Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.5%; Pachappa Elementary posts 48.9%, +14.5 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Pachappa Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Magnolia Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pachappa Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.5%.

Pachappa Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 767 students in 2018 compared to 676 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Pachappa Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.