University Heights Middle

University Heights Middle is one of the middle-of-the-pack junior highs in Riverside, California, part of Riverside Unified, with 870 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 32% above typical.

Riverside Unified comprises 48 schools with combined enrollment of 38,002 students; University Heights Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, University Heights Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). The remainder comes out to 6% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at University Heights Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, University Heights Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.2%.

In the broader community, Riverside County reports that median household income runs about $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 University Heights Middle is one.

The closest other public school is REACH Leadership STEAM Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), University Heights Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 870 in 2025.

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