Honey Hollow Elementary, Moreno Valley CA

Original Research by School Decision on Honey Hollow Elementary

Honey Hollow Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Moreno Valley, a large suburban Inland Empire city dominated by single-family tract homes, logistics facilities, and commercial corridors. The school sits within Moreno Valley Unified, which recently secured voter approval for a significant facilities modernization bond, signaling multi-year campus improvements that will affect property taxes for families in the area.

The school's most pressing characteristic is its test performance. On state assessments in English language arts across grades three through five, proficiency runs in the mid-to-low range, with grade three showing the most progress relative to the upper grades. Math proficiency is substantially lower across all grade bands, with grade four registering particularly weak results. Science proficiency at grade five is also low. Across all tested subjects and grades, the school sits in the bottom quartile when compared to other schools within Riverside County districts. These results reflect a student population facing significant academic headwinds; parents considering this school should understand that current proficiency rates are well below state benchmarks and well below the median performance of peer schools in the county.

The enrollment is small for an elementary school and ethnically concentrated. The vast majority of students are Hispanic; Black students make up a meaningful share; and other groups are very small. An overwhelming majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating concentrated poverty. Specific data on English learner enrollment and students with disabilities were not available. The school's demographic profile points to a high-need population with substantial economic pressure and likely a high proportion of students learning English as an additional language, though the school did not report that figure.

Moreno Valley itself is a car-dependent, built-out suburban municipality with no traditional downtown and a transit system that runs primarily along major corridors via the Riverside Transit Agency. Housing has been appreciating modestly, and new residential construction continues; the city is pursuing a planned Town Center and advancing a General Plan update. The area's major employers span military and public-sector facilities, logistics and distribution (a defining feature of the city's economy), healthcare, retail, and education. Families moving to or living in Moreno Valley are typically making a suburban, car-centric lifestyle choice in an economically diverse but lower-income region.

Honey Hollow Elementary is a straightforward public school with no special charter or magnet designation. The school's academic performance and student composition are the main vectors a family would evaluate. Given the low proficiency rates, a parent may want to look into further detail with the school about tutoring, intervention programs, and the specific support structures in place for struggling readers and mathematicians. The school's housing and community context reflect a working-class, diverse suburban setting; families here are building stability and opportunity in a growing, logistics-anchored city.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 31% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 411%

School 11% · District 23% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 513%

School 13% · District 18% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 34% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 422%

School 22% · District 31% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 36% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Science

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 18% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

This schoolMoreno Valley Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income28%Higher-income36%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income25%Higher-income46%20 pp gap