Palm View Elementary

Located at 1390 Seventh St., in Coachella, California, Palm View Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that enrolls 561 students (grades K through 6), run under Coachella Valley Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Palm View Elementary sits 21% above that benchmark.

Coachella Valley Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 15,817 students; Palm View Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Palm View Elementary shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Palm View Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Palm View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.0%; this one delivers 25.4%.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Palm View Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bobby Duke Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Palm View Elementary. On composite proficiency, Palm View Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 12%: 501 students in 2018 compared to 561 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.