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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Serrano Elementary this year?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 616 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MORENO VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 062580008909
Serrano Elementary
24100 Delphinium Ave., Moreno Valley, CA 92553 · (951) 571-4660 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.6:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
468 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 17 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 488% larger than its 6th grade class (17).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Serrano Elementary→Bayside Community Day
Based on grade levels within Moreno Valley Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
25.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.7pp since 2014
Math
23.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +10.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.2% | 14.5% | 28.6% | 45.6% |
| Math | 8.2% | 15.2% | 25.0% | 51.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.7% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 28.6% | 16.5% |
| 2022-23 | 36.4% | 22.4% |
| 2021-22 | 24.4% | 7.7% |
| 2018-19 | 26.8% | 19.8% |
| 2017-18 | 26.1% | 16.6% |
| 2016-17 | 21.4% | 15.8% |
| 2015-16 | 22.0% | 13.0% |
| 2014-15 | 18.0% | 13.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Serrano Elementary
Serrano Elementary's state test result (22.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serrano Elementary this school | 496 | 94.4% | 22.7% |
| Ramona-Alessandro Elementary San Bernardino | 502 | 92.8% | 38.0% |
| Tumbleweed Elementary Palmdale | 502 | 95.0% | 22.4% |
| Margaret Sheehy Elementary Merced | 481 | 94.4% | 19.6% |
| Don Stowell Elementary Merced | 501 | 96.0% | 17.7% |
| Cypress Elementary Highland | 517 | 94.2% | 23.2% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Serrano Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.7% | #4,315 of 5,151 | #227 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #3,958 of 5,172 ▲ 579 | #194 of 283 ▲ 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #4,411 of 5,172 ▼ 481 | #240 of 283 ▼ 27 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.5pp | #832 of 5,116 | #38 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #2,485 of 5,915 | #235 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.6:1 | #3,442 of 5,352 | #154 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.6% | #4,105 of 5,354 | #218 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.4% | #523 of 5,625 | #20 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.3% | #3,027 of 3,837 | #168 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
496
+60 (+14%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 889
Student : Teacher
23.6:1
was 24.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 496 | 21 | 23.6:1 | 94% (468) |
| 2023-24 | 466 | 20 | 23.3:1 | 95% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 20 | 22.3:1 | 84% (374) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 18 | 24.2:1 | 93% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 535 | 21 | 25.5:1 | 92% (493) |
| 2015-16 | 587 | 22 | 26.7:1 | 91% (533) |
| 2010-11 | 561 | N/A | N/A | 93% (520) |
| 2000-01 | 992 | 52 | 19.1:1 | 81% (806) |
| 1990-91 | 889 | 34 | 26.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Serrano Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (535 to 496); teachers unchanged (21 to 21).
About Serrano Elementary
Serrano Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Moreno Valley, California. Total enrollment is 496 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 6.
Within Moreno Valley Unified, Serrano Elementary is one of 38 schools. The district enrolls 31,001 students.
By race and ethnicity, Serrano Elementary is 85% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 6% Black, 4% White, and 2% multiracial. Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Serrano Elementary is 23.6:1, based on 21 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Serrano Elementary counts 94% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 74% for public schools in Riverside County.
On the allk12 Grade, Serrano Elementary lands at C, ahead of 29% of California public elementary schools.
A school with Serrano Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in California is predicted to score 24.3%. Serrano Elementary scores 22.7%, 1.6 points below that line.
For the population of Riverside County, the median household earns about $93,074 a year, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across Riverside County, 543 public schools serve about 424,872 students.
Serrano Elementary is about 0.5 miles from Bayside Community Day, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Serrano Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 496, compared with 436 in 2020-21.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Serrano Elementary. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Moreno Valley Unified
- Valley View HighHigh · 2,699 students
- Canyon Springs HighHigh · 2,251 students
- Moreno Valley HighHigh · 2,103 students
- Vista del Lago HighHigh · 1,924 students
- Vista Heights MiddleMiddle · 1,419 students
- Sunnymead MiddleMiddle · 1,185 students
Other schools in Moreno Valley
- Valley View HighHigh · 2,699 students
- Canyon Springs HighHigh · 2,251 students
- Moreno Valley HighHigh · 2,103 students
- Rancho Verde HighHigh · 2,101 students
- Vista del Lago HighHigh · 1,924 students
- Vista Heights MiddleMiddle · 1,419 students
Other Serrano Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Serrano Elementary. Serrano Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Serrano ElementaryVilla Park, CA · 524 students
Nearby schools
- Bayside Community Day0.5 mi · 121
- Moreno Valley Online Academy0.5 mi · 722
- Badger Springs Middle0.5 mi · 1,058
- Chaparral Hills Elementary0.7 mi · 547
- Garvey/Allen Visual & Performing Arts Academy for STEM0.9 mi · 210
- Armada Elementary1.1 mi · 684
Frequently asked questions
About Serrano ElementaryHow large is Serrano Elementary?
Serrano Elementary enrolls approximately 496 students in grades KG-06.
Is Serrano Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Serrano Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Serrano Elementary?
Approximately 23.6:1 students per teacher at Serrano Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Serrano Elementary?
At Serrano Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 85% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Serrano Elementary public or private?
Serrano Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Moreno Valley Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.