Boone Elementary

Boone Elementary, a close-knit K-5 school in San Diego, California, operated by San Diego Unified, teaches 342 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Boone Elementary is one of 174 schools operated by San Diego Unified, a district that educates 94,828 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Boone Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder looks like 14% Asian, 12% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Boone Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) logs that median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Boone Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

The closest other public school is Bell Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Boone Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boone Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.0%.

Boone Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Boone Elementary has decreased 25%, going from 456 students in 2018 to 342 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 63% across the same window.

On this page, members of the Boone Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.