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What's something Van Buren Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
455
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JURUPA UNIFIED·NCES 061926002321
Van Buren Elementary
9501 Jurupa Rd., Jurupa Valley, CA 92509 · (951) 360-2865 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
414 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 12% smaller than its 6th grade class (81).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
21.0%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.0pp since 2014
Math
16.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 4.3% | 16.7% | 24.9% | 54.1% |
| Math | 3.2% | 12.8% | 23.8% | 60.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 16.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 16.1% |
| 2022-23 | 19.3% | 10.7% |
| 2021-22 | 20.0% | 10.1% |
| 2018-19 | 25.8% | 18.1% |
| 2017-18 | 26.6% | 16.1% |
| 2016-17 | 23.0% | 16.8% |
| 2015-16 | 26.0% | 13.0% |
| 2014-15 | 21.0% | 11.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Van Buren Elementary
Van Buren Elementary's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Buren Elementary this school | 455 | 91.0% | 19.6% |
| Los Altos Elementary Whittier | 457 | 91.0% | 24.7% |
| Freedom Elementary Freedom | 479 | 91.4% | 15.2% |
| Felicita Elementary Escondido | 478 | 91.6% | 22.1% |
| Castle Rock Elementary Woodlake | 418 | 91.6% | 30.7% |
| H. A. Hyde Elementary Watsonville | 476 | 91.6% | 16.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Van Buren Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #4,615 of 5,151 | #249 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #4,657 of 5,172 ▼ 86 | #248 of 283 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #4,790 of 5,172 ▼ 494 | #268 of 283 ▼ 35 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #2,117 of 5,116 | #134 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #2,968 of 5,915 | #257 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.7:1 | #1,935 of 5,352 | #55 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.6% | #4,727 of 5,354 | #257 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #977 of 5,625 | #68 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #1,074 of 3,837 | #37 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
455
-88 (-16%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 677
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
was 23.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 455 | 21 | 21.7:1 | 91% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 20.1 | 23.3:1 | 90% (421) |
| 2022-23 | 493 | 21.2 | 23.2:1 | 85% (419) |
| 2020-21 | 543 | 23 | 23.6:1 | 82% (444) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 25 | 23.7:1 | 82% (488) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 25 | 24.6:1 | 84% (515) |
| 2010-11 | 644 | N/A | N/A | 76% (492) |
| 2000-01 | 652 | 29 | 22.5:1 | 69% (451) |
| 1990-91 | 677 | 26 | 26.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Van Buren Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (592 to 455); teachers down 16% (25 to 21).
About Van Buren Elementary
Van Buren Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Jurupa Valley, California, (ZIP code 92509). Students in kindergarten through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 455 students.
District-wide, Jurupa Unified has 24 schools and 17,739 students.
The large majority of students at Van Buren Elementary, 92%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 4% White and 2% multiracial. Riverside County's residents are about 51% Hispanic, 41 points below the school's share. Van Buren Elementary has a diversity index of 15%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The teaching staff at Van Buren Elementary is 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 21.7:1. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is about 22.3:1. About 91% of students, or 414, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 74% average for public schools in Riverside County is 17 points lower.
Van Buren Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 15% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 26.2% for a school in California with Van Buren Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Van Buren Elementary posts 19.6%.
In the county around the school, Riverside County, median household income is about $93,074, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. A total of 543 public schools operate in Riverside County, serving about 424,872 students.
The nearest public school is Mira Loma Middle, at about 0.7 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Van Buren Elementary is 7th among 9 schools close by.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Van Buren Elementary went from 543 students to 455. Its ratio of students to teachers was 23.6:1 in 2020-21, and 21.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jurupa Unified
- Patriot HighHigh · 2,399 students
- Jurupa Valley HighHigh · 1,693 students
- Rubidoux HighHigh · 1,259 students
- Del Sol AcademyElementary · 1,213 students
- Jurupa MiddleMiddle · 1,105 students
- Sunnyslope ElementaryElementary · 819 students
Other schools in Jurupa Valley
- Patriot HighHigh · 2,399 students
- Jurupa Valley HighHigh · 1,693 students
- Rubidoux HighHigh · 1,259 students
- Del Sol AcademyElementary · 1,213 students
- Jurupa MiddleMiddle · 1,105 students
- Louis VanderMolen Fundamental ElementaryElementary · 959 students
Other Van Buren Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 10 states are named Van Buren Elementary. Van Buren Elementary is the 7th largest of the 14.
- Van Buren ElementaryPlacentia, CA · 538 students
- Van Buren ElementaryStockton, CA · 473 students
- Van Buren Elementary SchoolPlainfield, IN · 514 students
- VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBALDWINSVILLE, NY · 488 students
- Van Buren Elementary SchoolVan Buren, OH · 468 students
Nearby schools
- Mira Loma Middle0.7 mi · 711
- Jurupa Middle1.1 mi · 1,105
- Pedley Elementary1.2 mi · 736
- Stone Avenue Elementary1.4 mi · 625
- Mission Bell Elementary1.5 mi · 370
- Troth Street Elementary1.7 mi · 583
Frequently asked questions
About Van Buren ElementaryHow large is Van Buren Elementary?
Van Buren Elementary enrolls approximately 455 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Van Buren Elementary serve?
Van Buren Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Van Buren Elementary have?
Van Buren Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Van Buren Elementary?
Student demographics at Van Buren Elementary are roughly 4% White, 92% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Van Buren Elementary in?
Van Buren Elementary is part of Jurupa Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.