Van Buren Elementary

Set in Jurupa Valley, California, Van Buren Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, run under Jurupa Unified. It teaches 455 students across grades K through 6.

Across the 24 schools in Jurupa Unified (17,739 students total), Van Buren Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Van Buren Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 4% White, 2% multiracial. 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, On paper, Van Buren Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Van Buren Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.6%.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Van Buren Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mira Loma Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Van Buren Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Van Buren Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 23.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Van Buren Elementary's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 455). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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