Summary:
ZIP code 92503 has one listed middle school, Chemawa Middle, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 885 students. In 2025–26, its proficiency rates were below both Riverside Unified and California in English language arts, math and science, with the largest shortfall in math: 19% proficient at Chemawa compared with 38% statewide, a 20-point gap.
Chemawa is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list because it is the only one, so that is not a meaningful peer ranking. Its results were below the district by 12 points in ELA, 16 in math and 10 in science; compared with California, it was behind by 14 points in ELA, 20 in math and 14 in science. Chronic absenteeism was another area above both benchmarks: 20% at Chemawa, versus 17% in the district and 18% statewide. The school’s SchoolDigger rating was 1 star, ranking 1,971 of 2,703 schools and placing it in the 27th percentile.
Results changed differently by subject from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA improved by about 1 point and its state gap narrowed by less than 1 point, while math slipped by less than 1 point and its gap widened by 1 point. Science rose by 1 point, but its gap widened by 2 points as the state improved more. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking rose from 30th to 31st, then fell to 27th in 2025–26. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 23.6 in 2024–25 and 89% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; these figures describe the school, not the reasons for its results. With just one school listed, families cannot compare Chemawa with nearby school peers using this data.
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