SW Riverside News

Out of 29,589 students enrolled in Temecula Valley Unified School District, 7.2 percent were in fourth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was ninth-grade with 8.5 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	2,236	7.6
First	1,945	6.6
Second	2,126	7.2
Third	2,062	7
Fourth	2,132	7.2
Fifth	2,204	7.4
Sixth	2,366	8
Seventh	2,332	7.9
Eighth	2,390	8.1
Ninth	2,518	8.5
10th	2,416	8.2
11th	2,414	8.2
12th	2,448	8.3