Tomas Rivera Middle

Tomas Rivera Middle operates as a sizable middle-grades school in Perris, California, one of the schools within Val Verde Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,014 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Val Verde Unified runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 19,065 students. Tomas Rivera Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Tomas Rivera Middle shows that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Tomas Rivera Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -6.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Tomas Rivera Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Manuel L. Real Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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 Tomas Rivera Middle at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 28.3%.

Tomas Rivera Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tomas Rivera Middle has shrank 7%, going from 1,095 students in 2018 to 1,014 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Tomas Rivera Middle typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.