NCES CCD 2024-25 23 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Hemet, CA

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23 public K-12 schools in Hemet from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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23
Schools
21,050
Students
13.3/100
Avg Resource Index
25:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hemet has more public-school enrollment than 93% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hemet's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

13 of Hemet's 23 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 4 middle and 4 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Hemet's reporting schools show 73.8% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 25.0:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 45-point gap between Academy of Innovation K-8 and Hemet Dual Language Academy is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 7%
School count
Top 12%
Resource Index average
1st percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Hemet school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Hemet school enrollment ranges from 239 students (lowest) to 2,414 students (highest), a spread of 2,175 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Hemet reports 73.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Hemet operates one school district — a single-district system

Hemet's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Hemet student-teacher ratio is 25.0:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Academy of Innovation K-8 45
2. Alessandro High 30
3. Academy of Innovation 23
4. Western Center Academy 22
5. Acacia Middle 20
6. Hemet High 19
7. Tahquitz High 18
8. West Valley High 16
9. Valle Vista Elementary 11
10. Bautista Creek Elementary 10
11. Whittier Elementary 10
12. Diamond Valley Middle 9
13. Cawston Elementary 9
14. Rancho Viejo Middle 8
15. Dartmouth Middle 7
16. Harmony Elementary 7
17. Hemet Elementary 7
18. Mcsweeny Elementary 7
19. Fruitvale Elementary 7
20. Little Lake Elementary 7
21. Ramona Elementary 7
22. Jacob Wiens Elementary 7
23. Hemet Dual Language Academy -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hemet

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Western Center Academy 66.0/100
  2. 2 Cawston Elementary 52.6/100
  3. 3 Bautista Creek Elementary 52.1/100
  4. 4 Harmony Elementary 50.3/100
  5. 5 Diamond Valley Middle 50.0/100

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Which Hemet school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Academy of Innovation K-8 has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hemet schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hemet, CA? ▼

Hemet has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 21,050 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 25:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.