Summary
Herk Bouris Elementary is a K–5 school in Lake Elsinore, California, serving 734 students in the Menifee Union district and an area with several nearby elementary schools for comparison. The school’s clearest strength is consistent performance above both state and district averages: in 2025–2026, students met or exceeded standards at higher rates in ELA, math and science.
Compared with nearby schools, Herk Bouris performed above the peer average in all three subjects and ranked third of 11 in science, fourth in ELA and fifth in math. ELA proficiency was 55%, versus 49% statewide and 48% districtwide; math was 51%, versus 38% for both; and science was 46%, versus 36% statewide and 38% districtwide. Grade results reveal some variation: fifth-grade ELA was 72%, the highest among nearby schools, and fourth-grade math was 64%, also the highest. By contrast, third-grade ELA was 39%, below the state’s 44% and district’s 47%, while fifth-grade math fell to 41% from 64% in fourth grade.
Scores have shifted over time: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, ELA fell 5 percentage points overall and math fell 3, while science rose 8, with notable year-to-year swings. SchoolDigger ranks Herk Bouris 1,707th of 5,804 California schools, at the 71st percentile, and gives it 4 stars; the district has 3 stars. Its 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 23.3, near the middle of the nearby range. The school reported 61% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, below the nearby-school average of 67%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for Multi-racial Students was at the 19th percentile, well below the school’s overall 71st percentile; its Special Education Students ranking rose to the 79th percentile in 2025–2026, up 27 points from 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism also improved, dropping from 27% in 2021–2022 to 10% in 2025–2026, just above the district’s 10%.
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