Sugar Hill Elementary

Sugar Hill Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Moreno Valley, California, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified, works with 629 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Sugar Hill Elementary sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Moreno Valley Unified comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 31,001 students; Sugar Hill Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Sugar Hill Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sugar Hill Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sugar Hill Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Sugar Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Midland Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sugar Hill Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Sugar Hill Elementary's enrollment has grew 22% since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 629). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 62% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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