Pedley Elementary

Set in Jurupa Valley, California, Pedley Elementary is a big primary school, part of Jurupa Unified. It educates 736 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 58% above the state mean of about 465.

Across the 24 schools in Jurupa Unified (17,739 students total), Pedley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Pedley Elementary logs that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, Pedley Elementary lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Pedley Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.0%; Pedley Elementary posts 18.9%, -15.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pedley Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stone Avenue Elementary, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pedley Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pedley Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pedley Elementary has grew 28%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 736 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.