Adams Elementary

Adams Elementary is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in San Diego, California, run under San Diego Unified, enrolling 290 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

San Diego Unified runs 174 schools in total, collectively educating 94,828 students. Adams Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Adams Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 17% White, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Adams Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Adams Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the broader community, San Diego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Adams Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: San Diego Global Vision Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Adams Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Adams Elementary's enrollment has rose 4% since 2018, when it stood at 280 (now 290). White enrollment moved from 8% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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