Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Alta Murrieta Elementary, Murrieta, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 849
- Teachers (FTE)
- 34.0
- Students per teacher
- 25.0
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 1.6 higher than the district figure of 23.4. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 39475 Whitewood Rd., Murrieta, CA 92563
- Phone
- (951)696-1403
- District
- Murrieta Valley Unified
- County
- Riverside County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 060002909509
School meals
- Free lunch
- 341
- Reduced-price lunch
- 173
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 51460.5% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 261Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Murrieta Valley Unified
- Cole Canyon Elementary 1,038 students
- Lisa J. Mails Elementary 1,006 students
- Murrieta Elementary 893 students
- Antelope Hills Elementary 839 students
- Daniel N. Buchanan Elementary 828 students
- Monte Vista Elementary 769 students
- Tovashal Elementary 745 students
- Avaxat Elementary 617 students
- Rail Ranch Elementary 603 students
- E. Hale Curran Elementary 575 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Murrieta
- Oak Meadows Elementary Menifee Union
- Alamos Elementary Temecula Valley Unified
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.