Summary:
ZIP code 92507 has four elementary schools—Highgrove Elementary, Longfellow Elementary, Emerson Elementary, and Harada Elementary—all serving kindergarten through grade 6 in Riverside Unified. In 2025–26, their equal-school average was 29% proficient in English language arts (ELA), 22% in math, and 19% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The average gaps were 20, 16, and 17 percentage points, respectively. The most important finding is that all four schools scored below the state in every subject.
Highgrove led in ELA at 33% and science at 23%, while Longfellow led in math at 27%. Each leader was 5–6 points above the average of the other three schools in that subject. At the other end, Harada had the lowest ELA result (22%) and science result (12%); Emerson had the lowest math result (18%). The spread between the highest and lowest school was 11 points in ELA, 9 in math, and 11 in science. Even the subject leaders remained below state results.
Recent results show different directions: Longfellow improved in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26—by 4 points in ELA, 8 in math, and 10 in science—while Emerson fell by 4, 5, and 4 points. Across the four schools, math rose by 3 points on average, while ELA dipped by less than 1 point and science rose by 2. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings shifted from 22 to 25 for Longfellow, but from 28 to 17 for Emerson; these rankings offer context alongside the subject results. In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios ranged from 22.1 at Harada to 26.0 at Highgrove. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure that year ranged from 80% at Highgrove to 93% at Longfellow; these figures describe the schools and do not explain their results. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 ranged from 22% at Longfellow to 26% at Harada, above the state’s 18%.
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