Red Hawk Elementary

Red Hawk Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Temecula, California, one of the schools within Temecula Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 496 students spanning grades K through 5.

Temecula Valley Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 26,274 students. Red Hawk Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Red Hawk Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% White, 16% Asian, 10% multiracial, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Red Hawk Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Red Hawk Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Red Hawk 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 meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Red Hawk Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Red Hawk Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Temecula Luiseno Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 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), Red Hawk Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 554 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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