Elementary · California
Daniel N. Buchanan Elementary
Free meals for allDaniel N. Buchanan Elementary, a public elementary school in Murrieta, California: grades k–5, 828 students, 23.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Murrieta Valley Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 828
- Teachers (FTE)
- 34.8
- Students per teacher
- 23.8
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 69% of elementary schools in California
Median 22.4 · 5,918 schools compared
More students per teacher than 95% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 95% of elementary schools in California
Median 455 · 5,933 schools compared
Larger than 95% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Murrieta Valley Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Murrieta Valley Unified.
Location
- Address
- 40121 Torrey Pines Rd., Murrieta, CA 92563
- Phone
- (951)696-1428
- City or town
- Murrieta
- County
- Riverside County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Ysabel Barnett ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 753 | 23.5 |
Alta Murrieta ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 849 | 24.3 |
Nicolas Valley ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 691 | 23.0 |
| K–8 | 285 | 19.2 | |
Monte Vista ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 769 | 24.2 |
Rail Ranch ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 603 | 25.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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