Valley View Elementary

Valley View Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Riverside, California, run under Alvord Unified, caters to 675 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Valley View Elementary sits 45% above that benchmark.

Valley View Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Alvord Unified, a district that teaches 16,432 students overall.

On demographics, Valley View Elementary logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 6% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valley View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.8%; this one delivers 24.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Valley View Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Twinhill Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley View Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Valley View Elementary has climbed 25%, going from 540 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.

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