Riverview Elementary

Riverview Elementary is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Norco, California, overseen by Corona-Norco Unified, teacheing 327 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 30% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Riverview Elementary is one of 51 schools operated by Corona-Norco Unified, a district that teaches 49,370 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Riverview Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 35% White, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at Riverview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Riverview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Louis VanderMolen Fundamental Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Riverview Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

Riverview Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 13%: 289 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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