Chollas/Mead Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in San Diego, California, Chollas/Mead Elementary teaches 534 students from grades K through 5, part of San Diego Unified.

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

On the student-mix side, Chollas/Mead Elementary shows that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Chollas/Mead Elementary shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Chollas/Mead Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (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 the poverty rate sits near 7%. Chollas/Mead Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: America's Finest Charter, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chollas/Mead Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 16.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Chollas/Mead Elementary's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 621 (now 534). Class-load math has tightened: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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