Patricia Beatty Elementary

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Riverside, California, Patricia Beatty Elementary works with 494 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Riverside Unified.

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

Demographically, Patricia Beatty Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder is composed of 7% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Patricia Beatty Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Patricia Beatty Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Patricia Beatty Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Fremont Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Patricia Beatty Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Patricia Beatty Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 27.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Patricia Beatty Elementary has shrank 24%, going from 654 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 82% to 78%.

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