Withrow Elementary

Located at 30100 Audelo St., in Lake Elsinore, California, Withrow Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school that teaches 583 students (grades K through 5), run under Lake Elsinore Unified. That puts it 25% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Lake Elsinore Unified comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 20,539 students; Withrow Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Withrow Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder consists of 12% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Withrow Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.8%; this one delivers 27.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Riverside County shows median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Withrow Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Terra Cotta Middle, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Withrow Elementary. On composite proficiency, Withrow Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Withrow Elementary has declined 22%, going from 745 students in 2018 to 583 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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