Pacific Avenue Academy of Music

Set in Jurupa Valley, California, Pacific Avenue Academy of Music is an intimate K-5 school, operated by Jurupa Unified. It caters to 352 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Pacific Avenue Academy of Music sits 24% below that benchmark.

Pacific Avenue Academy of Music is one of 24 schools operated by Jurupa Unified, a district that teaches 17,739 students overall.

On demographics, Pacific Avenue Academy of Music logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 8% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 83% of students at Pacific Avenue Academy of Music qualify 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Pacific Avenue Academy of Music performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 20.9%, a residual of -9.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Pacific Avenue Academy of Music is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Rubidoux High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pacific Avenue Academy of Music at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 19.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pacific Avenue Academy of Music's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 331 (now 352).

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