Ramona Elementary

As a sizable elementary school in Hemet, California, Ramona Elementary teaches 702 students from grades K through 5, run under Hemet Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 51% bigger than typical.

Within Hemet Unified, which oversees 27 schools and 22,778 students, Ramona Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ramona Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 12% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 93% of students at Ramona Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ramona Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.2%; this one delivers 19.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) records that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Ramona Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hemet Dual Language Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ramona Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 623 students in 2018 compared to 702 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 65% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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