Riverside County Community: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Riverside County Community posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (0.9% vs 3.7%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 11 | 1% | 6% | — | 58.0% | 0.9% |
| CA average · Middle School | 38 | 17% | 39% | — | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Riverside County Community scores 11 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 1st percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “6% proficient” and call it done. Riverside County Community deserves a closer read. The school sits in Riverside, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 1st percentile since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 6% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 9% | 9% | 6% | 0% | 5% |
| Grade 8 | 3% | 0% | 7% | 5% | 11% |
| Grade 11 | 6% | 2% | 4% | 6% | 4% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 0% | 0% | 6% | 0% | 0% |
| Grade 8 | 2% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% |
The 5 things our score weighs
California's own answer to the same question
California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California middle schools in reading, and the 28th in math. We show it; we don't score it.
— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Riverside County Community in Riverside, 6.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 14.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Riverside County Community trails its district average for low-income students by 8.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (4.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (3.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 6.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 99 students tested.
10 of 17 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (77.7% vs 40.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Riverside County Community serves grades 7-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$11,823 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 181 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 5% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
Is Riverside County Community a good middle school?
What are Riverside County Community's CAASPP test scores?
How does Riverside County Community rank in California?
What is the attendance and school culture like at Riverside County Community?
How does Riverside County Community compare to other schools in Riverside?
How does Riverside County Community serve low-income and underrepresented students?
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 46
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 53
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 0% | 5% | 5% | 91% | 5% | −43 |
| Grade 8 | 35 | 0% | 11% | 3% | 86% | 11% | −35 |
| Grade 11 | 54 | 0% | 4% | 15% | 81% | 4% | −45 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | −34 |
| Grade 8 | 34 | 6% | 3% | 9% | 82% | 9% | −23 |
| Grade 11 | 54 | 0% | 4% | 6% | 91% | 4% | −20 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 37 | 0% | 5% | 49% | 46% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 99 | 6.1% | −8 | −32 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 87 | 3.5% | −8 | −35 |
| Students with Disabilities | 17 | 0.0% | −6 | −17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside County Community ← | — | 11 | 1.5% | 6.2% | — | — | 0.9% |
| California average | — | 38 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5pp | — | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | 1 | #1993 | 0.4% | 3.5% | 58.0% | 3.3% | — |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 | #2143 | 0.0% | 2.3% | 57.9% | 1.2% | — |
| 2023 | 9 | 1 | #2153 | 0.5% | 4.4% | 55.9% | 1.1% | -0.3pp |
| 2024 | 9 | 1 | #2194 | 0.0% | 1.7% | 52.4% | 2.8% | — |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | #2205 | 1.5% | 6.2% | 58.0% | 0.9% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 32 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 70.7% | 64.9% | -5.8pp |
| Male | 62.9% | 69.5% | +6.6pp |
| Black/African American | 65.3% | 63.2% | -2.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 65.4% | 72.2% | +6.8pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 66.7% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 59.6% | 70.5% | +10.9pp |
| English Learners | 55.8% | 71.8% | +16.0pp |
| Foster Youth | 66.7% | 72.7% | +6.0pp |
| Homeless | 50.0% | 80.0% | +30.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 65.8% | 69.4% | +3.6pp |
| All Students | 65.1% | 68.3% | +3.2pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 54.5% | — |
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −42 | 15 | Minimal | −7 | 15 | Moderate |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −44 | 13 | Minimal | −6 | 13 | Moderate |
| Hispanic or Latino | −41 | 11 | Minimal | −8 | 11 | Moderate |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
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