Sunnymead Middle

Set in Moreno Valley, California, Sunnymead Middle is a substantial 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Moreno Valley Unified. It educates 1,185 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 80% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Sunnymead Middle is one of 38 schools operated by Moreno Valley Unified, a district that enrolls 31,001 students overall.

On demographics, Sunnymead Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 94% of students at Sunnymead Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunnymead Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.4%; this one delivers 12.9%.

Across the wider county, 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 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 Sunnymead Middle is one.

Sunnymead Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunnymead Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sunnymead Middle at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 23.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Sunnymead Middle's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,448 (now 1,185). Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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