Vail Elementary

Vail Elementary is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Temecula, California, one of the schools within Temecula Valley Unified, with 563 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 465.

Temecula Valley Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 26,274 students. Vail Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Vail Elementary shows that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Asian. Compared to Riverside County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Vail Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Riverside County) logs that median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Vail Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Temecula Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Vail Elementary comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Vail Elementary operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vail Elementary has ticked up 8%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 563 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.

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