Pendleton Elementary

Pendleton Elementary, a compact elementary school in San Diego, California, part of San Diego Unified, educates 352 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 465.

Within San Diego Unified, which oversees 174 schools and 94,828 students, Pendleton Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pendleton Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 16% Black, 13% White, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 29.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Pendleton Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 31.6%.

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

Language Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pendleton Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pendleton Elementary's enrollment has expanded 15% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 352). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 37% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 29.3:1 today.

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