Sunnymead Elementary

Sunnymead Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Moreno Valley, California, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified, teacheing 642 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 38% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On demographics, Sunnymead Elementary records that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 9% Black, 2% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sunnymead Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunnymead Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Sunnymead Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sunnymead Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sunnymead Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 20.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 809 students in 2018 compared to 642 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 in 2025.

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