Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Dorothy McElhinney Middle, Murrieta, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,451
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.0
- Students per teacher
- 25.0
- Grades
- 6 to 8
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
- 35125 Briggs Rd., Murrieta, CA 92563
- Phone
- (951)304-1885
- District
- Murrieta Valley Unified
- County
- Riverside County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 060002912243
School meals
- Free lunch
- 440
- Reduced-price lunch
- 231
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 67146.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 298Students 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 middle schools in Murrieta Valley Unified
- Thompson Middle 1,565 students
- Shivela Middle 1,282 students
- Warm Springs Middle 755 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Murrieta
- Bella Vista Middle 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.