Susan La Vorgna Elementary

Set in Winchester, California, Susan La Vorgna Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, part of Temecula Valley Unified. It caters to 649 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 40% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Temecula Valley Unified comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 26,274 students; Susan La Vorgna Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Susan La Vorgna Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 30% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian, 7% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, Susan La Vorgna Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Susan La Vorgna Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Susan La Vorgna Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 48.3%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) records that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Susan La Vorgna Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Temecula Valley Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 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 Susan La Vorgna Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 57.1%.

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

Five-year trend. Susan La Vorgna Elementary's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 856 (now 649). The White share of enrollment shrank from 44% to 30% over that span.

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