Woodrow Wilson Elementary

Woodrow Wilson Elementary is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Corona, California, run under Corona-Norco Unified, instructing 696 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Woodrow Wilson Elementary sits 50% above that benchmark.

Woodrow Wilson Elementary is one of 51 schools operated by Corona-Norco Unified, a district that instructs 49,370 students overall.

On demographics, Woodrow Wilson Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 31% White, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Woodrow Wilson Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodrow Wilson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate 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), Woodrow Wilson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Orange Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodrow Wilson Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodrow Wilson Elementary's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 852 (now 696). The White share of enrollment edged down from 40% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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