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Schools & Commute

Perris Union High School District (Perris High School, Heritage High School, Pinacate Middle School) and Val Verde Unified School District serve the area, with Perris Elementary School District covering elementary grades. I-215 runs through Perris, with the Ramona Expressway providing an east-west corridor; the Perris Valley Line (Metrolink) also serves the area.

Perris is the third most warehouse-saturated Inland Empire city per resident, behind Ontario and Moreno Valley, with 30M+ square feet of industrial development built as of December 2025 – prompting the city council to pass a warehouse-approval moratorium in December 2025 to January 2026.

July 2026 Market Update (Citywide)

According to the Inland Empire Board of Real Estate’s July 2026 Housing Data Report (IVAR/CRMLS), Perris’s citywide median sale price was $540,000, down 2% year-over-year, with sales transaction volume also down 2% year-over-year – a relatively flat month. 93 homes were active on the market, selling at a median $302 per square foot with a median 14 total days on market, one of the faster sale paces in the Inland Empire that month. Total sales volume for the month was $32,253,600 across 54 closed transactions.

This is a full-city monthly snapshot from MLS-wide closed sales and shouldn’t be blended with the Market Snapshot figures above or the neighborhood-level information below.

Neighborhoods Within Perris

Perris is commonly searched by its named planned communities rather than as one uniform market. Most of the city’s residential growth since the 1990s has happened inside adopted specific plans, and the governing plan, school district, and any special tax differ from one to the next.

May Ranch is Perris’s largest planned residential community by land area (about 744 acres under the May Ranch Specific Plan), built from the mid-1990s on. Confirm whether a Community Facilities District / Mello-Roos special tax applies to a specific parcel — the sources leave this open — by reading the current tax bill and requesting disclosures from the City of Perris Finance Department.

New Horizons is a compact 1990s-era specific-plan community (805 homes on about 126 acres) bordered on three sides by May Ranch.

Green Valley is a specific plan still being amended and expanded (later phases adopted in 2023 and 2025); part of it is designated for higher-density and multifamily housing, so it is a genuine mix of housing types. Confirm the current land-use designation for a specific block with the City.

Downtown Perris is the historic core around the 1892 Santa Fe Depot, governed by its own specific plan with ten character sub-districts; a property there may carry design-review considerations depending on its sub-district and any historic designation.

These are consumer-facing search labels, not fixed legal boundaries — verify a specific property’s tract, specific-plan area, HOA status, CFD/special-tax balance, taxes, and school assignment individually. Perris is served by more than one school district (Perris Union High, Val Verde Unified, and Perris Elementary), so school assignment in particular should be confirmed address by address. Ask Itzel to pull a current MLS comparison for the specific streets you’re considering.

Market data changes frequently and may reflect active listings, closed sales, or automated valuation estimates depending on the source. Buyers and sellers should verify current availability, boundaries, HOA rules, schools, taxes, commute times, and property-specific condition with an agent and the appropriate public agencies.