Summary
River Heights Intermediate is a 1,203-student school serving grades 7–8 in Eastvale, California, in the Corona-Norco Unified area. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates are higher than both state and district averages in English language arts (ELA), math and science. The clearest standout is math: proficiency is 56%, 18 points above the state and 12 points above the district.
The school’s results are strong compared with nearby schools, too. In matching grade-level comparisons, it ranks first among the supplied schools in 7th-grade ELA and 8th-grade math, and second in 7th-grade math. Its 8th-grade math proficiency is 57%, compared with a nearby-school average of 29%; in 8th-grade ELA and science, it ranks third. Science is its relative soft spot: proficiency is 45%, still above the state’s 36% and district’s 41%, but with smaller leads than in ELA or math. Chronic absenteeism is also below the district and state: 10% at River Heights, versus 14% and 18%, respectively.
Math proficiency has climbed 12 percentage points since 2022–2023, from 44% to 56%, while the state gained 4 points; River Heights’ lead over the state widened by 8 points. SchoolDigger places the school at the 84th percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026, rank 441 of 2,703, up 15 percentile points from 2014–2015; only nearby Dr. Augustine Ramirez Intermediate ranks higher locally. SchoolDigger’s ranking for how well the school serves Asian students is 56th percentile, 28 points below its overall standing. Its ranking for multi-racial students rose 19 points, from the 58th to the 77th percentile, between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. Context matters: the student-teacher ratio was 26.6 in sy 2024–2025, tied for highest among nearby schools, and 69% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year, below the nearby average of 80%.
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