San Jacinto Elementary

San Jacinto Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in San Jacinto, California, run under San Jacinto Unified, with 519 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

San Jacinto Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,273 students. San Jacinto Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, San Jacinto Elementary logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% Black, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, On paper, San Jacinto Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting San Jacinto Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), San Jacinto Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.6%.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which San Jacinto Elementary is one.

San Jacinto Leadership Academy - Magnet is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), San Jacinto Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 506 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 in 2025.

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