Ashley Falls Elementary

As a cozy primary school in San Diego, California, Ashley Falls Elementary hosts 367 students from grades K through 6, run under Del Mar Union Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Ashley Falls Elementary sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Del Mar Union Elementary (3,496 students total), Ashley Falls Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Ashley Falls Elementary logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ashley Falls Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.5%; this one delivers 76.7%.

In the surrounding community, San Diego County reports that median household earnings sit near $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Ashley Falls Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sycamore Ridge, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ashley Falls Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ashley Falls Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 81.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ashley Falls Elementary has ticked down 26%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 367 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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