Skyview Elementary

Skyview Elementary operates as an expansive K-5 school in Perris, California, part of Perris Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 725 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 56% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Perris Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,518 students. Skyview Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Skyview Elementary lists that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 6% Black, 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Skyview Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Skyview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Skyview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Across the wider county, Riverside County reports that median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Skyview Elementary is one.

Clearwater Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Skyview Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 22%: 596 students in 2018 compared to 725 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 80% to 89%.

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