Creative Performing and Media Arts

Located at 5050 Conrad Ave., in San Diego, California, Creative Performing and Media Arts is a reasonably sized middle school that caters to 614 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by San Diego Unified.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Creative Performing and Media Arts is among them.

In terms of who attends, Creative Performing and Media Arts logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 15% White, 12% Black, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Creative Performing and Media Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Creative Performing and Media Arts sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 23.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for San Diego County shows median household earnings sit near $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Creative Performing and Media Arts is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Hawthorne Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Creative Performing and Media Arts. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Creative Performing and Media Arts at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creative Performing and Media Arts has shrank 40%, going from 1,031 students in 2018 to 614 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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