Serrano Elementary

Set in Moreno Valley, California, Serrano Elementary is an average-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified. It instructs 496 students across grades K through 6.

Within Moreno Valley Unified, which oversees 38 schools and 31,001 students, Serrano Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Serrano Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). The remainder is composed of 6% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Serrano Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Serrano Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.3%; this one delivers 23.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Riverside County shows median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Serrano Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Moreno Valley Online Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Serrano Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Serrano Elementary has edged down 7%, going from 535 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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