Palm Middle

Set in Moreno Valley, California, Palm Middle is a roomy 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified. It educates 999 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Palm Middle sits 52% larger than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Palm Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 12% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Palm Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 84% of students at Palm Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Palm Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.2%; this one delivers 27.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Palm Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cloverdale Elementary, around 0.3 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), Palm Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Palm Middle has fell 22%, going from 1,279 students in 2018 to 999 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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