Perris Elementary, Perris CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Perris Elementary

Perris Elementary is a public school serving kindergarten through sixth grade in Perris, a growing working and middle-income city in Riverside County. The school enrolls students drawn heavily from the immediate neighborhood, with a large share of students from Spanish-speaking households and a majority qualifying for free or reduced-price meals, reflecting the community's economic profile.

The school's academic performance, measured by California's state assessments, is substantially below proficiency across both English language arts and mathematics. On the most recent state tests, about one in five students in tested grades met proficiency standards in English language arts, and about one in six met proficiency in mathematics. Performance is weaker at higher grade levels; by fifth and sixth grade, proficiency rates in both subjects fall to single digits. Science testing, available for fifth grade only, shows proficiency at similarly low levels. These results place the school in the bottom quartile of proficiency among districts in Riverside County.

A parent considering Perris Elementary should understand that this is a school where the vast majority of students are not meeting grade-level standards on state measures. The pattern of declining proficiency as students move up grades suggests that the school may benefit from examining how instruction builds across grade levels and where students may be losing ground. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly asking about how the school identifies students who are struggling, what interventions are in place, and how instruction is adapted for students reading or computing below grade level.

The school's enrollment is weighted heavily toward younger grades, with kindergarten making up about one-third of the school body. This grade distribution, along with the overall enrollment of around eight hundred students, shapes daily life toward the early elementary experience, though the presence of grades four through six means some students will experience a transition to upper-elementary work before moving to middle school.

The wider community context matters for understanding what families navigate. Perris is a city in steady growth, with housing development, logistics hubs, and retail anchoring the local economy. The city center has walkable downtown streets and Metrolink commuter rail service, but most of the city is built on auto-dependent suburban patterns. Home prices in the area have remained relatively stable, and rental costs run moderately higher as a share of typical household income. In November 2024, the district passed a school facilities bond, which will fund modernization of classrooms, roof and plumbing repairs, additions to science and technology spaces, and security upgrades across the district, bringing tangible changes to school buildings over the coming years. Many of the schools in this district were constructed decades ago, so this investment addresses longstanding aging infrastructure.

Perris Elementary is the kind of school where academic support is a priority question for any family. The low proficiency rates across grades and subjects are the central fact to reckon with, and a parent's conversations with school leadership about how students are being moved toward grade-level performance should be direct and specific.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 332%

School 32% · District 28% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Grade 422%

School 22% · District 21% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 57%

School 7% · District 16% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 64%

School 4% · District 13% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 324%

School 24% · District 31% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 426%

School 26% · District 32% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 29% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 618%

School 18% · District 32% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Science

Grade 54%

School 4% · District 14% · ▼ 10 pts below district

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

This schoolPerris Elementary, 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 5Lower-income16%Higher-income7%9 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income7%Higher-income7%0 pp gap