Ridge Crest Elementary

Ridge Crest Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Moreno Valley, California, part of Moreno Valley Unified. The school works with 575 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 24% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Moreno Valley Unified runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 31,001 students. Ridge Crest Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Ridge Crest Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder consists of 15% Black, 11% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ridge Crest Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Ridge Crest 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ridge Crest Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 31.2%.

In the broader community, Riverside County reports that median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Ridge Crest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: La Jolla Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridge Crest Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ridge Crest Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Ridge Crest Elementary's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 575).

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