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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Cottonwood Canyon Elementary, Lake Elsinore, CA

CEP schoolCottonwood Canyon Elementary is a public elementary school in Lake Elsinore, part of Lake Elsinore Unified. It enrolled 813 students in 2024-25, with 23.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
813
Teachers (FTE)
35.0
Students per teacher
23.2
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 23.1. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school23.2
District23.1
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
32100 Lost Rd., Lake Elsinore, CA 92532
Phone
(951)244-2585
District
Lake Elsinore Unified
County
Riverside County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
060002710587
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
329
Reduced-price lunch
109
Free or reduced-price lunch
43853.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
247Students 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 Lake Elsinore Unified

Elementary schools elsewhere in Lake Elsinore

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.