Palms Elementary

Palms Elementary is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Perris, California, run under Perris Elementary, enrolling 671 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 44% above the state mean of about 465.

Palms Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Perris Elementary, a district that instructs 5,518 students overall.

On demographics, Palms Elementary logs that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 11% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Palms Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Palms Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.3%.

Around the school, Riverside County reports that median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Palms Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Perris High, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Palms Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 876 students in 2018 compared to 671 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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