Chesterton Elementary

Chesterton Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in San Diego, California, run under San Diego Unified. Current enrollment sits at 365 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Chesterton Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Chesterton Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 28% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 14% multiracial, 5% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chesterton Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 44.5%; actual is 60.3%, +15.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Chesterton Elementary is one.

San Diego Cooperative Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Chesterton Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chesterton Elementary has ticked down 16%, going from 434 students in 2018 to 365 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment fell from 28% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 today.

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