Rainbow Ridge Elementary

Located at 15950 Indian Ave., in Moreno Valley, California, Rainbow Ridge Elementary is a sizable K-5 school that instructs 723 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Val Verde Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rainbow Ridge Elementary sits 55% larger than that benchmark.

Rainbow Ridge Elementary is one of 22 schools operated by Val Verde Unified, a district that educates 19,065 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Rainbow Ridge Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%. Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rainbow Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Rainbow Ridge Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is March Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rainbow Ridge Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.1%.

Rainbow Ridge Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rainbow Ridge Elementary has declined 9%, going from 798 students in 2018 to 723 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 14% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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