Railroad Canyon Elementary

Located at 1300 Mill St., in Lake Elsinore, California, Railroad Canyon Elementary is a large elementary campus that hosts 873 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Lake Elsinore Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 88% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Lake Elsinore Unified runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 20,539 students. Railroad Canyon Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Railroad Canyon Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 6% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Railroad Canyon Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 83% of students at Railroad Canyon Elementary qualify 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 north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Railroad Canyon Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.5%.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Railroad Canyon Elementary is one.

Elsinore Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Railroad Canyon Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Railroad Canyon Elementary's enrollment has climbed 16% since 2018, when it stood at 752 (now 873). Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.

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