Ruth Brown Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary-level community in Blythe, California, Ruth Brown Elementary serves 609 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Palo Verde Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 31% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Palo Verde Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 2,610 students, Ruth Brown Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ruth Brown Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school logs 13% White, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ruth Brown Elementary shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 87% of students at Ruth Brown 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ruth Brown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 16.5%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Ruth Brown Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Margaret White Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Ruth Brown Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ruth Brown Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ruth Brown Elementary's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 644 (now 609). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Ruth Brown Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.