Railway Elementary

Railway Elementary is a well-populated K-5 school in Perris, California, run under Perris Elementary. The school serves 715 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 54% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Perris Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,518 students. Railway Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Railway Elementary records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Railway Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Railway Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pinacate Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Railway Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 18.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Railway Elementary's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 850 (now 715).

In the discussion threads here, members of the Railway Elementary community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.